#2996. 近代英語期の英文法書とレシピ本の共通点

Tieken-Boon van Ostade (138) による後期近代英語の概説書を読んでいて，英文法書とレシピ本に見られる思いも寄らない共通点を教えられた． Between 1500 and 1850, the number of such books [= cooking recipes] increased dramatically, which, interestingly, shows a parallel with the steep rise in the publication of English grammars since the 1760s . . . . Their reading public was also similar: people who desired access to the 'polite' middle classes, and who

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どちらも上昇志向の中産階級にとって上品なマナーを身につけるために必要だったとの由