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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Excitement or illiteracy?
Here is Sopio Zhgenti’s second blogpost, once again on Virginia Woolf: The previous blog post I wrote was about Virginia Woolf and the nicknames she used with people close to her. This time, I would like to continue talking about … Continue reading
The Adams Family Papers
The Adams Family is a popular topic in this blog. Here is another blogpost on them, Martijn Slokker’s last one: When I wrote my course paper, I worked with the Adams Family Papers, an electronic archive which contains (among other … Continue reading
Jane Austen: a very polite correspondent
Merel Kohsiek’s second blog post is on a comparison between the language of Charlotte Brontë and that of Jane Austen: For my analysis of the language of grief in Charlotte Brontë’s letters (see also my previous blog post), I did a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, politeness
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English by Dutch people (2)
I wrote my first blogpost about a letter written by a Dutchman, which was written in English entirely. Meanwhile, I found another example of English written by a Dutch person, in a letter, dated 14 April 1758, where I did … Continue reading
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The Brontë sisters’ pseudonyms
Merel Kohsiek wrote her first blogpost on the Brontë sisters’ pseudonyms, and how Charlotte’s identity was revealed: Charlotte Brontë is now known mainly for her novel Jane Eyre, but her contemporaries did not know her as such. The novel was published under … Continue reading
Clever letter writing tools: the Polygraph
Here is Martijn Slokker’s first blogpost: While doing research for my course paper I made the fortuitous decision of watching the 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams, a series that chronicles the political life of the second president of the United … Continue reading
Politeness strategies in valedictions
Epistolary fomulas were clearly a popular topic during last semester’s course on Late Modern English letters. Here is what Klazien Tilstra wrote about themin her second blogpost: This is not the first blog post on opening and closing formulae in Late Modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Brown and Levinson, Elizabeth Montagu, politeness
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Awkward
January is a month of marking – essays, chapters as well as blogposts Here is another one, Klazien Tilstra’s first piece, which is far from awkward! While reading a letter by Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), I was struck by the word awkward. … Continue reading
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