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Time-Bound Words

Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Peggy A. Knapp

    1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Philology in a New Key

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    Pages 1-12

  3. Corage/Courage

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    Pages 13-27

  4. Estat/Estate

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    Pages 28-47

  5. Fre/Free

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    Pages 48-65

  6. Gloss

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    Pages 66-79

  7. Kynde/Kind

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    Pages 80-97

  8. Lewid/Lewd

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    Pages 98-112

  9. Providence

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    Pages 113-129

  10. Queynte/Quaint

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    Pages 130-142

  11. Sely/Silly

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    Pages 143-157

  12. Thrift

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    Pages 158-171

  13. Virtù/Virtue

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    Pages 172-188

  14. After Words

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    Pages 189-193

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 194-224
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Time-Bound Words argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising ways, and investigates this claim by following eleven words from Chaucer's time to Shakespeare's. Middle English words like corage, estat, thrift , and virtù come to serve the logic of new social discourses by 1611. Language from Chaucer, Wyclif, More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and others is examined both as current and emerging usage, and as verbal play that accomplishes cultural work.

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...provide useful and vivid introductions to the lived textures of the early modern world. Renaissance Quarterly

Authors and Affiliations

  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Peggy A. Knapp

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Peggy A. Knapp is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

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