Nineteenth-Century English

by Richard W. Bailey

Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Woolf's, but historians of the English language have given scant attention to the ways in which English changed over the course of the nineteenth century. In Nineteenth-Century English, Richard W. Bailey treads new ground by showing the extent to which the language changed as cultural and economic transformations brought us into the modern world.
Six aspects of nineteenth-century English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047210750X
• ISBN13: 9780472107506
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 386 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"