Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Jonathan (Seton Hall University, New Jersey) Farina

Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an 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, aesthetics and assumptions about what counts as knowledge.

ISBN-13
9781316632789
ISBN-10
1316632784
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-02-28
Pages
318
Dimensions
230x152x17
Weight
450