In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the Britis

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was

Volume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conque