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Author: Kristin A. Olbertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 100909890X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.
Author: Kristin A. Olbertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1009116533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.
Author: D. Higgins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-09-23
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1137411635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth.
