Chapter published in:
Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 216–234

Neither I nor we

Inexplicit authorial voice in eighteenth century academic texts

| Universidad de La Laguna
Published online: 09 October 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.225.11mel
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