Download or read book A Study of Selected English Critical Terms from 1650-1800 written by Edward A. Watson and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study of Selected English Critical Terms from 1650 to 1800: A Constellation is a lexicographical record of the usage of twenty-two words, terms and concepts in the critical literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century. These twenty-two terms form a constellation or cluster because of a certain predictability in the critical vocabulary and the associations generated from the use of an imprecise nomenclature. This stylization accounts for the imprecision in the use of specific words, and the study indicates the pluri-signative nature of many of the terms used.