Grammar wars : language as cultural battlefield in 17th and 18th century England /
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| Author / Creator: | Mitchell, Linda C. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001. |
| Description: | viii, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4610922 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Vernacular Claims Victory
- English and Latin Models
- Inversion of Linguistic Authority
- 2. "Reformation of Schooles": Hartlib, Comenius, Milton
- Architectural Metaphors
- Comenius and Hartlib
- Reception of Comenius's Ideas
- Less Grammar, More Reading and Writing
- 3. The Battle: Good Grammar or Good Writing
- Putting Grammar to Work
- Rhetoric Subsumes Grammar: Grammar Texts as Rhetoric Handbooks
- Grammar Texts and Composition in the Schoolroom
- 4. Repairing Babel: Battles in Universal Language and Universal Grammar
- Language Acquisition: Descartes and Locke
- Universal Schemes in Seventeenth-Century England
- Universal Language in Eighteenth-Century England
- 5. Regulating Social Position
- Grammar for Foreigners: A Moral and National Identity
- Grammar for the "Weaker Sex": How Much is Morally Appropriate?
- Self-Generated Identity: The Middle Class and Birth of the "Language Police"
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
