Author : Carey McIntosh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004430636
A study of English semantics during the Enlightenment. New words 1650–1800 reflect the new middle-class culture of sociability, commerce, and science. Old mostly obsolete words illuminate the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, outrageous sexism, magic, horses, bizarre food.