Case of the initial letter, the: charles dickens and the politics of the dual alphabet
Auteur :
Edwards, Gavin
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781526146298
Date de publication :
28 juil. 2020
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
363 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the interests of a wider radicalism. -- .