Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina.
Farina, Jonathan, 1979-| Call Number | 823/.809 |
| Author | Farina, Jonathan, 1979- author. |
| Title | Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Farina. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 107 |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017). |
| Contents | 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 Victorian prose; 4. 'Something' in the way realism moves: Middlemarch and oblique character references; 5. 'Whoever explains a 'but'': tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary | 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 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. |
| Subject | English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Language and languages in literature. English language Terms and phrases. Characters and characteristics in literature. Fiction Authorship History 19th century. |
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| Summary | 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 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017). |
| Contents | 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 Victorian prose; 4. 'Something' in the way realism moves: Middlemarch and oblique character references; 5. 'Whoever explains a 'but'': tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Subject | English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Language and languages in literature. English language Terms and phrases. Characters and characteristics in literature. Fiction Authorship History 19th century. |
| Multimedia |