Print version: Crawforth, Hannah Jane. Etymology and the invention of English in early modern literature. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xi, 218 pages ISBN 9781107041769
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Etymology in early modern literature -- Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser -- Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson -- Etymology and place in Donne’s sermons -- Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton’s prose -- Conclusion: A world in a word.