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Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle - The Brutal Tongue (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle - The Brutal Tongue (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive
examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial
nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the
Victorian fin-de-siecle. Focusing on a variety of literary and
non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the
Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of
language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing
linguistic corruption and debasement - popular fiction. Ferguson
demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and
anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were
co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality
of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie
Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker
used their fantastic narratives to radically reformulate the
relationships among language, thought, and progress that underwrote
much of the contemporary prejudice against mass literary taste. In
its alignment of scientific, cultural, and popular discourses of
human language, Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the
Victorian Fin-de-Siecle stands as a corrective to assessments of
best-selling fiction's intellectual, ideological, and aesthetic
simplicity.
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