Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Enregistering the North 13
5. Chapter 2. The origin and development of the iffy-an(d) conjunction 31
6. Chapter 3. From ornament to armament 49
7. Chapter 4. Borrowing and copy 71
8. Chapter 5. Decoding the parentheses in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus 87
9. Chapter 6. The first person in fiction of the 1790s 111
10. Chapter 7. “Worth a moment’s notice” 129
11. Chapter 8. Jane Austen and the prescriptivists 151
12. Chapter 9. Dismantling narrative modes 171
13. Chapter 10. Stylistics and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W.B. Yeats 195
14. Index 213