Semantics and cultural change in the British Enlightenment : : new words and old / / by Carey McIntosh.
Obsolete old words from 17th-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, reflect a middle-class culture very different from an earlier cour...
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Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 315 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
Volume 315. |
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