Everyday Words And The Character Of Prose In Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture, Series Number 107)

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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 'everyday words' as signatures of 'character'. Attending to them reveals how many of the fundamental forms of characterizing fictional characters also turn out to be forms of characterizing objects, natural phenomena and inanimate, abstract things, such as physical laws, the economy and legal practice. Ultimately, this book revises what 'character' meant to nineteenth-century Britons by respecting the overlapping, transdisciplinary connotations of the category.

| Author: Jonathan Farina
| Publisher: Cambridge University Press
| Publication Date: Feb 28, 2019
| Number of Pages: 316 pages
| Language: English
| Binding: Paperback
| ISBN-10: 1316632784
| ISBN-13: 9781316632789

Author:: Jonathan Farina
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:: Feb 28, 2019
Number of pages:: 316 pages
Language:: English
Binding:: Paperback
ISBN-10:: 1316632784
ISBN-13:: 9781316632789

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