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The Case of the Initial Letter - Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,478
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The Case of the Initial Letter - Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet (Hardcover): Gavin Edwards

The Case of the Initial Letter - Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet (Hardcover)

Gavin Edwards

Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

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The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism. It discusses Dickens's satire - on 'Shares' in Our Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey's position as the 'Son' of Dombey and Son - alongside the proto-modernist typography of suffragist poet Augusta Webster and the work of Marx's translators transforming German conventions of capitalisation into English under the influence of Dickens and Carlyle. Placing these innovations within the history of the dual alphabet from its invention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, the book tracks the dual alphabet through Dickens's manuscripts, corrected proofs, and the 'prompt copies' for his public Readings, highlighting distinct ways in which writing, printing and speech produce meaning. -- .

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Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Release date: July 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Gavin Edwards
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4629-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-5261-4629-0
Barcode: 9781526146298

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