Reviews
"Carey McIntosh's assertive, intelligent, wide-ranging, and free-wheeling new book should prove important, as well as fascinating, to scholars investigating the language, especially literary language, of eighteenth-century Britain...Any student of the eighteenth century of any sort would find this book both useful and immensely interesting. His theses are possible, plausible, well argued. McIntosh's own style is itself so persuasive that the reader feels him-or herself to be convinced." The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 'The Evolution of English Prose launches and sustains its major claims with unfailing lucidity. McIntosh expertly attends to the shift in 'the primary textures of prose' as they both register and influence the new ideal. His comprehensive map derives from precise topographical studies ... is especially persuasive as an interpreter of grammars and dictionaries, which did so much to promote the new ideologies of decorum. In an academic climate that encourages blinkered polemics, McIntosh embraces multiple fields, perspectives and methodologies. The Evolution of English Prose deserves a wide readership.' The Times Literary Supplement, "This fascinating book rewards close attention, both in the larger categories of the history of eighteenth-century writing and in many insightful readings of individual passages. The over-all argument...is convincing, the practical demonstrations illuminating, the definitions of terms pertinent and clear. Highly recommended." The East-Central Intelligencer, "This is clearly a major, if not the major, work on the subject to date, painstakingly researched, comprehensively argued, and lucidly expressed...[McIntosh] has written was seems to be the definitive treatment of the development of eighteenth-century English prose." Modern Philology, "Well argued and well written, this fascinating book is recommended for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers." Choice, 'The Evolution of English Prose launches and sustains its major claims with unfailing lucidity. McIntosh expertly attends to the shift in 'the primary textures of prose' as they both register and influence the new ideal. His comprehensive map derives from precise topographical studies … is especially persuasive as an interpreter of grammars and dictionaries, which did so much to promote the new ideologies of decorum. In an academic climate that encourages blinkered polemics, McIntosh embraces multiple fields, perspectives and methodologies. The Evolution of English Prose deserves a wide readership.' The Times Literary Supplement, 'The Evolution of English Prose launches and sustains its major claims with unfailing lucidity. McIntosh expertly attends to the shift in 'the primary textures of prose' as they both register and influence the new ideal. His comprehensive map derives from precise topographical studies ... is especially persuasive as an interpreter of grammars and dictionaries, which did so much to promote the new ideologies of decorum. In an academic climate that encourages blinkered polemics, McIntosh embraces multiple fields, perspectives and methodologies. The Evolution of English Prose deserves a wide readership.'The Times Literary Supplement, ‘The Evolution of English Prose launches and sustains its major claims with unfailing lucidity. McIntosh expertly attends to the shift in ‘the primary textures of prose’ as they both register and influence the new ideal. His comprehensive map derives from precise topographical studies … is especially persuasive as an interpreter of grammars and dictionaries, which did so much to promote the new ideologies of decorum. In an academic climate that encourages blinkered polemics, McIntosh embraces multiple fields, perspectives and methodologies. The Evolution of English Prose deserves a wide readership.’The Times Literary Supplement
Topic
Style Manuals, Publishing, Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Women's Studies, Europe / Great Britain / General, Literacy, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
