Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old by Carey McIntosh

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #315

Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old

Carey McIntosh

224 pages hardcover 2020

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nonfiction history medium-paced
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Obsolete old words from seventeenth-century English villages reflect the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, bizarre foods, magic, horses, outrageous sexism, feudal duties. New words, first appearing in print 1650-1800, reflec...

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