Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2025.5

Cor­po­ra and lan­guage change in late mod­ern Eng­lish
Late Mod­ern Eng­lish has tra­di­tion­al­ly been con­sid­ered a peri­od of lin­guis­tic sta­bil­i­ty in terms of lan­guage stan­dard­iza­tion. How­ev­er, a care­ful exam­i­na­tion of cru­cial aspects of its inter­nal and exter­nal his­to­ry reveals that this peri­od still deserves schol­ar­ly atten­tion. This book aims to offer valu­able tools for the study of Late Mod­ern Eng­lish, along with a selec­tion of stud­ies that approach lin­guis­tic vari­a­tion from var­i­ous per­spec­tives.
In the first part, the book pro­vides an account of some avail­able cor­po­ra for the study of Late Mod­ern Eng­lish, rep­re­sent­ing dif­fer­ent text types such as med­ical Eng­lish or pri­vate cor­re­spon­dence, among oth­ers. Addi­tion­al­ly, these cor­po­ra cov­er var­i­ous dialects and ear­ly new vari­eties of Eng­lish.
In the sec­ond part, sev­er­al cor­pus-based stud­ies assess Late Mod­ern Eng­lish at dif­fer­ent lev­els shed­ding light on the lan­guage of the peri­od.
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British Writ­ing from Empire to Brex­it: Writ­ing, Iden­ti­ty, and Nation
This intro­duc­tion to British lit­er­a­ture from 1900 to 2021 looks at British writ­ing from the per­spec­tive of the 2016 Brex­it vote and its seis­mic reper­cus­sions. The book cov­ers a wide vari­ety of British lit­er­a­ture in order to expose the cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal his­to­ry of Britain, its repeat­ed chal­lenges and high­ly class-bound, patri­ar­chal struc­ture.
British Writ­ing from Empire to Brex­it: Writ­ing, Iden­ti­ty, and Nation offers a stark view of what British cul­ture has come to rep­re­sent, and the reper­cus­sions. Not shy­ing away from dis­cus­sions around impe­ri­al­ism, nation­al­ism, and racism, Robert Spencer, Howard J. Booth, and Anas­ta­sia Valas­sopou­los offer a rad­i­cal decon­struc­tion of what British­ness can, and should, mean, pro­mot­ing a con­vinc­ing and acces­si­ble way to rethink the texts and field. The authors analyse nov­els, poet­ry, and prose which ampli­fy the dis­sentient and dis­si­dent per­spec­tives of women, gen­der non-con­form­ing, and queer authors, as well as the var­ied view­points and insights of work­ing-class, immi­grant, post­colo­nial, Black, and Asian writ­ers, show­ing how these works open up post-nation­al futures after empire and after Brex­it.
Ulti­mate­ly offer­ing a mod­el to res­cue Britain from its cur­rent crises and anx­i­eties, this book is an essen­tial read for any­one approach­ing the study of British lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture, as well as those work­ing on post­colo­nial stud­ies, decoloni­sa­tion, recent British his­to­ry and pol­i­tics, or with an inter­est in empire and Brex­it.
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