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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. 215–234

Chapter 11
Neither I nor we

Inexplicit authorial voice in eighteenth century academic texts

| Universidad de La Laguna
Article outline
  • 1.Authorial voice
  • 2.Authors in CETA and CHET
    • 2.1Thomas Birch (1705–1766)
    • 2.2Walter Anderson (?-1800)
    • 2.3Matthew Stewart (1717–1785)
  • 3.First person pronouns and other stance/engagement markers
    • 3.1Birch’s authorial voice
    • 3.2Anderson’s authorial voice
    • 3.3Stewart’s authorial voice
  • 4.Cross-case analysis
  • 5.Final remarks on exceptional voices
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 9 October 2019
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