Author: Lannering, Jan [ & Soderlind, Johannes]
Title: Studies in the Prose Style of Joseph Addison [bound together with: "Verb Syntax in John Dryden's Prose"]
Description: Nendeln [Liechtenstein], Kraus Reprint, 1973. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, (209)+(283)pp, A facsimile reprint of the 1951 edition.. Some rubbing. Light page-edge soil. Binding corner bumps. VG. ¶ This is a single volume containing two University of Upsala doctoral dissertations [issued by the English Institute as Volumes 9 & 10 of the series "Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature"], bound together, as issued by publisher. Consists of: 1) Jan Lannering "Studies in the Prose Style of Joseph Addison" [1951; 203,(6) pp]; &: 2) Johannes Söderlind "Verb Syntax in John Dryden's Prose" [1951; xxii, 261 pp]. [ Contents: Studies in the Prose Style of Joseph Addison: Parallelism: Symmetric Parallelism; Asymmetric Parallelism; Sentence Structure: Addison on Composition; Backround; Addison's Usage; Cadence; Diction: Imaginative Elements: Trends of Development in the 17th Century; Addison's Theory of Imaginative Elements; His Practice; Conclusion]. [Contents: Verb Syntax in John Dryden's Prose: Construction: Verbs Linking a Predicative (Nominal Part of the Predicate) to the Subject; Verbs Complemented by an Object; Reflexive Verbs; Impersonal Constructions; Voice; Concord: Number; Person; Tense: The Present; Prefect, Preterite, Pluperfect; Aspect: The Expanded Form: Present & Preterite; Perfect & Pluperfect; Future; Conditional; Other Cases of Expanded Infinitive; Ing-Form; Mood: Mood in the Conditional Sentence; The Subjunctive in Other Cases; Shall and Will: Shall and Will as Tense Auxiliaries; Shall/Should in Other Uses; Should; Will/Would in Other Uses; Can and May: Capability; Permission; Eventuality;May in Other Uses; Do: The Prose of the Essays & Letters; The Prose of the Plays; Other Functional Verbs & Phrases].

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Joseph Addison, Prose Style, John Dryden, Stylistics Verb, English Literature, Linguistic Language, Linguistics Syntax, Seventeenth Century