TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Ian
TI  - The establishment of modern English prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
SN  - 9780521480888
U1  - 828.08 23
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
KW  - English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
KW  - English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
KW  - English language -- Great Britain -- Rhetoric
KW  - English language -- Great Britain -- Style
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - English language
N2  - In The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment, Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as an art form that was theorised in a manner quite distinct from verse. Robinson argues that the sentence is a stylistic as well as a grammatical conception. Engaging with the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, combining literary criticism with linguistic and textual analysis.He shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world
ER  -