Monthly Archives: May 2024

On Late Modern American English

Just out: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (University of Leiden), Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England, published last Friday in Volume 16 of Token, A Journal of English Linguistics. Interested? You can read and download the article here.

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Jane Austen in English popular culture

No post about her letters this time, but about how ingrained she is in English popular culture. Apart from Shakespeare maybe the only other iconic English writer in this respect (a point I make in the introduction to my book … Continue reading

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