Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century britain
Auteur :
Farina, Jonathan
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781316632789
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2019
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
450 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.