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The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment Author:Ian Robinson Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically co... more »nditioned 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.« less