Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
52
result(s) for
"English language 19th century Style."
Sort by:
Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic
In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression.
Contents: Introduction: sincere mannerisms; The character of the periodical press; The origins of modern earnest; The downfall of authority and The New Magazine; Thomas de Quincey's periodical rhetoric; The political economy of style: John Ruskin and critical truth; The Victorian critic as naturalizing agent; The style is the man: style theory in the 1890s; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
eBook
Some words of Jane Austen
\"Tave identifies and explains a number of central terms in Austen's language of values. He traces the force of words such as \"limitations,\" \"expectations,\" \"sensibility,\" \"odd,\" and \"lively\" to tease out the way her view of morality and the world are revealed in the plots of her six novels. He assumes the reader knows these books. Each of his chapters provides a careful close reading of one novel.\"--Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Dickens's Style
Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.
eBook
Corpus linguistics in literary analysis : Jane Austen and her contemporaries
Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses, criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of meaning in language.The second part of the book takes this theory and applies it to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and to two corpora consisting of 1) Austen's six novels and 2) texts that are contemporary with Austen. The analyses demonstrate the impact of various features of text on literary meanings and how corpus tools can extract new critical angles.This book will be a key read for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates working in corpus linguistics and in stylistics on linguistics and language studies courses.
eBook
The Language of Jane Austen
First published in 1972, Norman Page's seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen's use of language.
As well as examining the staple items of her vocabulary and some of the characteristic patterns of her syntax, attention is paid to her use of dialogue and of the letter form. The aim of the study is not simply to analyse linguistic qualities for their own sake but to employ close verbal analysis to enrich the critical understanding of Jane Austen's novels.
eBook
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination
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 Imaginatio n 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.
eBook
Bodies of Reform
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siecle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable stuff, has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity.Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of character in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.
eBook