Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina.
Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina.
Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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G 2018/1623
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English
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xxii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Epigraphs; 1. Darwin's view from Todgers's: 'A decided turn' for character and common words; 2. Inductive 'attentions': Jane Austen in 'particular' and in 'general'; 3. 'Our skeptical as if': conditional analogy and the comportment of...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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England
Date Published
2017.
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"Everyday Words 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...
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Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 107
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/1623
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74VKVWdkgRrO
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1107181631 hardback
9781107181632 hardback
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823.809
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991024136211402626
