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Elizabeth Elstob against Jonatan Swift: the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and Anglo-Saxon Studies in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Authors: Guermanova N.N.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 2(870) (2023)
- Pages: 21-27
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/352786
- ID: 352786
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The article analyses E. Elstob’s preface to her “Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue” as a document illustrating the beginnings of Anglo-Saxon studies in eighteenth-century Britain. Highlighting Elstob’s polemic with the authors denying the value of the Anglo-Saxon heritage, the author demonstrates that in the ‘Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns’ the researchers of the Old English language and culture took the side of ‘ the Moderns’ due to the accent on the Anglo-Saxon identity of Britons and the use of modern textological methods.
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Natalia Nikolaevna Guermanova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: nata-germanova@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil), Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics
Russian FederationReferences
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