Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an original and innovative study of the stylistic tics of canonical novelists including Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray and Eliot. Jonathan Farina shows how ordinary locutions such as 'a decided turn', 'as if' and 'that sort of thing' condense nineteenth-century manners, tacit aesthetics and assumptions about what counts as knowledge. Writers recognized these recurrent...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1316632784
ISBN13:9781316632789
Release Date:February 2019
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:316 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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