"Good old days"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Oct 7 00:19:06 UTC 2004


On Oct 6, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter asks:

> ...Why the apparent development of nostalgia around 1700?  Or is the
> problem with EEBO?

one very tentative hypothesis: the appearance of neo-classicism in
english literature?  we're talking almost entirely about "elevated"
authors here, aren't we?

arnold



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