Archaic style in English literature, 1590-1674 /Lucy Monro.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : conceptualising archaism -- Within our own memory : old English and the early modern poet -- Chaucer, Gower, and the anxiety of obsolescence -- Archaic style in religious writing: immutability, controversy, prophecy -- Staging generations: archaism and the theatrical past -- Shepherds' speech : archaism and early Stuart pastoral drama -- Archaism and the 'English' epic -- Coda : looking backward, looking forward.
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English language--Archaisms. English language--Style.