by Seth Lerer (Author)This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed,... Read more
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by Seth Lerer (Author)
This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society.
Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, where he has also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. His publications include Chaucer and His Readers (1993), Error and the Academic Self (2002), Inventing English (revised edition, 2015), Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008), and Shakespeare's Lyric Stage (2018). He has published creative non-fiction in The American Scholar, The Yale Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in his memoir, Prospero's Son (2013).