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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century
Britain is an original and 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, tacit aesthetics and assumptions about
what counts as knowledge. Writers recognized these recurrent
'everyday words' as signatures of 'character'. Attending to them
reveals how many of the fundamental forms of characterizing
fictional characters also turn out to be forms of characterizing
objects, natural phenomena and inanimate, abstract things, such as
physical laws, the economy and legal practice. Ultimately, this
book revises what 'character' meant to nineteenth-century Britons
by respecting the overlapping, transdisciplinary connotations of
the category.
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