Seventeenth-century prose fiction by English women writers: primary sources and recent studies (1977-97)

English medicine in the seventeenth century

other persons who are mentioned because at some time something has been named after them. Historians may hope that future editions will not prune too much on the ground of obsolescence. Manifestly there is no outright "best buy": Firkin & Whitworth contain material not to be found elsewhere, and similarly much that they do not cover is available elsewhere. All depends on what you seek. They can...

Writing the Lives of Women: Recent Biographies of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

Animal Souls, Metempsychosis, and Theodicy in Seventeenth- Century English Thought

English Almanacs and Animal Health Care in the Seventeenth Century

In seventeenth-century England, the health and welfare of nonhuman animals rested almost solely on the shoulders of their keepers. Veterinary institutions had not yet been founded, and academically trained animal doctors did not exist. Laymen, however, had access to a great deal of information on animal health care. A range of printed publications were available that offered medical advice. The...

Comments on Nonfinite Adverbial Patterns in English Prose Fiction: A Simple Model for Analysis and Use

This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...