Books written by Tim William Machan

  • What is English?: And Why Should We Care?
    What is English?: And Why Should We Care?

    Edward Phillips's 1658 New World of English Words offers a lexicon that recalls the alive-yet-dead literary coinages already discussed. On one hand, Phillips's book depicts an almost threefold expansion of English since Cawdry's work; ...

  • Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English
    Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English

    In upholding Meyer's conviction for wrongfully teaching a foreign language, the Nebraska Supreme Court emphasized not language but safety and citizenship: The salutary purpose of the statute is clear. The Legislature had seen the ...

  • What is English?: And Why Should We Care?
    What is English?: And Why Should We Care?

    Meyer, The Five Dollar Day, 2. 10. The New Immigration, 160, 297. Korman, Industrialization, Immigrants, and Americanizers, 42–6. Quoted in Korman, Industrialization, Immigrants, and Americanizers, 153. Mirel, Patriotic Pluralism.

  • Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts
    Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts

    The Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine . Ed . and trans . Christopher B. Coleman . 1922. ... Wimsatt , W. K. , and Monroe C. Beardsley . “ The Intentional Fallacy . " Sewanee Review 54 ( 1946 ) : 468–88 .

  • Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English
    Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English

    Robert Crowley, the Wrst editor of Piers Plowman, had observed already in 1550 that English had changed in so many ways since the poem's fourteenth-century composition as to leave Langland's language diYcult and obscure: 'The Englishe ...

  • Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
    Northern memories and the English Middle Ages

    Laing, Journal of a Residence, p. 91. Wawn (ed.), The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland, p. 197; and Morris, 21 22 Journals of Travel in Iceland, p. 96. Dillon, A Winter in Iceland and Lapland, vol. 1, p. 78.

  • English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language
    English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language

    Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during the Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200. Newark: University of Delaware Press. Olender, Maurice (1992). The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth ...

  • From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and historical imagination
    From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and historical imagination

    Eric Stockton remarks: 'Thorstein Veblen's sole contribution to the study of Icelandic literature as literature was his The Laxdæla Saga . ... Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland (vols 3–5), The Volsunga Saga (vol.

  • Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500
    Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500

    ... English (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Dahood, Roger, “The Use of Coloured Initials and Other Division Markers in Early Versions of Ancrene Riwle,” in Medieval English Studies Presented to George Kane, ed. Edward Donald Kennedy ...

  • Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
    Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages

    The book's approach to the Anglo-Scandinavian past addresses the role of Nordic materials in framing conceptions of the English Middle Ages and positions the literature of medievalism not as the origin of modern Anglo-Nordic interests but ...

  • Sources of the Boece
    Sources of the Boece

    The edition thus enables detailed, comparative studies of Chaucer’s use of his sources and provides additional material for assessing his understanding of Boethius’s ideas and how they figure in his other compositions.