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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination
- The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
Engelsk Paperback

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination

- The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
Engelsk Paperback

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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens's use of bodily idioms—"right-hand man," "shoulder to the wheel," "nose to the grindstone"—against the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501772863
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501772864
Udg. Dato:
15 dec 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 dec 2023
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