Google Ngrams: close reading, active reading, 1800-2022

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Virtual panel discussion: Tracking the history of English with the Oxford English Dictionary Thu, 23 October, 05:00 – 06:30 PM BST (UTC +1) Book your place: http://tiny.cc/History-of-English-LL Join OED editors and guest speakers for a discussion where they will uncover a thousand years of the English language. This session will cover: - Overview of University College London's 'From Old English to World Englishes' project - How the work of OED's historical lexicographers complem

Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels 30 June 2023 In “Against Theory,” after the second wave has washed up and left behind what looks like the second stanza of “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,” we a…

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

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The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster share their preeminence in the history of English lexicography with a man now almost forgotten, who usually signed his books simply ‘N. Bailey’. Even in his lifetime...