Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth Century Britai

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Farina is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, where he is Director of the Center for Literature and the Public Sphere, and an Associate Director of the Honors Program. He is Associate Editor of The Wordsworth Circle. Klappentext This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Epigraphs; 1. Darwin's view from Todgers's: 'A decided turn' for character and common words; 2. Inductive 'attentions': Jane Austen in 'particular' and in 'general'; 3. 'Our skeptical as if': conditional analogy and the comportment of Victorian prose; 4. 'Something' in the way realism moves: Middlemarch and oblique character references; 5. 'Whoever explains a 'but'': tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Farina, Jonathan (Seton Hall University Farina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107181632
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18163-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc