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Tables of Contents for The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
viii
2
Note on texts
x
3
Preface
xiii
1 Sentence and period
1
44
i Sentences now
1
12
ii Sentences then
13
7
iii Medieval punctuation
20
15
iv Period
35
10
2 Prose rhythm
45
14
3 Syntax and period in Middle English
59
12
4 Cranmer's commonwealth
71
34
i Tyndale and the Bible
71
11
ii Cranmer's sentences
82
23
5 Shakespeare vs the wanderers
105
34
i The worst English prose
105
18
ii Shakespeare's prose
123
8
iii Puritan pamphleteers
131
8
6 Dryden's democracy
139
12
7 The prose world
151
15
Appendices
166
47
1 The history of the sentence
166
19
2 Medieval punctuation theory
185
5
3 Punctuation in a few manuscripts
190
10
4 Cranmer and the cursus
200
9
Texts frequently cited
209
4
Index
213