Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English 1
5. Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community 29
6. How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians 55
7. “if You think me obstinate I can’t help it” 87
8. Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence 111
9. Preacher, scholar, brother, friend 135
10. The social space of an eighteenth-century governess 163
11. Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence 191
12. Good-natured fellows and poor mothers 211
13. Name index 229
14. Subject index 235