HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE STYLE

What's New

2/1/97:

Initial version of Reader officially listed.

6/23/97:

Added: THOMAS MORE (Renaissance)--an extra (opening) paragraph.
-------THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (Nineteenth Century: British)
-------FREDERICK DOUGLASS (Nineteenth Century: American)
-------SUSAN B. ANTHONY (Nineteenth Century: American)
-------THORSTEIN VEBLEN (Nineteenth Century: American)
-------FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR (Twentieth Century)
-------EMMELINE PANKHURST (Twentieth Century)
-------U.S. SUPREME COURT (Twentieth Century)

--A small twentieth-century selection has been started.
--A small selection of nineteenth-century American prose has been started.
--The table of contents has been modified to distinguish British and American selections.
--I have reorganized the table of contents and the packets so that texts appear in chronological order (with the usual warnings about uncertain dates of composition and/or publication etc.).

6/7/97:

Added: WILLIAM BYRD (early 18th century)--an extra (concluding) paragraph.

I have also made a preliminary attempt to clear up some of the most obvious typographical errors. In the process, I did confirm that some of what I thought might be typographical errors are indeed period spellings that I had transcribved accurately.

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