Words and phrases that are to do with sex in literary and spoken English - Responses to offending language from the eighteenth and nineteenth century

by Thomas Eger

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Bielefeld University, language: English, abstract: In his book "Dr. Bowdler's Legacy" Noel Perrin tells us in the first chapter that a big change of morality took place with the turn of the nineteenth century in England. He puts it as follows: "... the first new generation of the nineteenth century (grew) up more strait-laced, inhibited,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3656521301
• ISBN13: 9783656521303
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"