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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Literary style
/ English language -- Idioms.GBC3J5345
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
/ hybrid interpretive practices
/ Idioms
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century
ISBN
9781501772863, 1501772864, 1501772856, 9781501772856, 9781501772870, 1501772872
