Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue

by Christine Ferguson

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Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-si cle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138262803

ISBN13:9781138262805

Release Date:October 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:190 Pages

Weight:0.61 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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