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Nineteenth-Century English

2006
This volume of Studies in English Language focuses on the nineteenth century, an important period of both stability and change for the English language. Through ten detailed case studies, it highlights the relationships between English, its users, and nineteenth-century society, looking particularly at gender differences and variation across genres. It
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Nineteenth-Century English Obscenity Law

1993
The historical episode is perhaps ending during which published sexual writing was an important object of legal regulation. The legislative limits of the episode are set by the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 (Lord Campbell’s Act) and the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, the key statutory construction being Regina v. Hicklin which in 1868 established
Ian Hunter, David Saunders, Dugald Williamson   +2 more
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel

2023
This dissertation considers the politics and practices of incorporating regional dialects into the nineteenth-century English novel form. After roughly 1850, there is a distinct expansion of publications written in dialect in England. This is owing to both a peak in academic interest in comparative philology and publishers’ recognition of the market ...
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Nineteenth-century English

2014
This paper focuses on language variation and change in nineteenth-century England. The first part of the paper is concerned with grammar writing and the influence that grammatical norms may have had on the English language. The second part of the paper takes a closer look at actual language usage.
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Cultivating Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century English Gardens

Science in Context, 2000
The ArgumentThe popularity of botany and natural history in England combined with the demographic changes of the first half of the nineteenth century to bring about a new aesthetics of gardening, fusing horticultural practice with a connoisseurship of botanical science.
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Nineteenth century english picture frames II: The victorian high renaissance

Museum Management and Curatorship, 1986
Some later owner could not have agreed with Rossetti, as the frame has since disappeared from the picture; but, by comparison with Leighton’s other large mythological paintings, it should have been either a moulding/entablature frame, richly decorated with antique motifs, or a full-blown aedicular design, based on 15th century Florentine altarpieces ...
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REALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

SCIENTIFIC WORK, 2020
In England, realism was formed very quickly, because it appeared immediately after the Enlightenment, and its formation occurred almost simultaneously with the development of Romanticism, which did not hinder the success of the new literary movement. The peculiarity of English literature is that in it romanticism and realism coexisted and enriched each
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Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change

English Studies, 2009
MERJA KYTO, MATS RYDEN AND ERIK SMITTERBERG Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006 xix + 295 pp., ISBN: 978-0-521-86106-9, £50.00 This book reports on a series of corpus studies investigating ...
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English in Nineteenth-Century England

1999
Nineteenth-century English can in many ways be claimed to have laid the foundations for the present-day language, but until recently it has not received as much attention from scholars of linguistics as the English of earlier periods. This book provides an introduction to the distinctive features of nineteenth-century English in England, from spelling ...
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