About this book

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. About this book vii
4. Writing History in Late Modern English 1
5. Chapter 1. A review of the development of historical writing and writers in English from 1700 to 1900 5
6. Chapter 2. “There were always Indians passing to and fro” 21
7. Chapter 3. An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English Texts 41
8. Chapter 4. Typical linguistic patterns of English history texts from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century 57
9. Chapter 5. Exploring the narrative dimension in late Modern English History texts 83
10. Chapter 6. Time and history 103
11. Chapter 7. “Were this eſtimation, however, to be depended on” 129
12. Chapter 8. Modal verb categories in CHET 149
13. Chapter 9. A corpus-based study of some certainty adverbs in the Corpus of History English Texts 167
14. Chapter 10. How intimate was the tone of female History writing in the Modern period? 185
15. Chapter 11. Neither I nor we 215
16. Chapter 12. Do writers express the same attitude in historical genres? 235
17. Chapter 13. On cognitive complexity in scientific discourse 259
18. Index 277