The present volume is an empirical, corpus-based study of the progressive in 19th-century English. As the 1800s have been relatively neglected in previous resea

This volume pays particular attention therefore to contextual factors; to the changing codes and conventions of political culture and public space. Through crit

Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account . . .[Cannadine] tells his own story per

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the 'life cycle' of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range