The Resource 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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- 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, like 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxii, 286 pages
- Contents
-
- Darwin's view from Todgers's : "A decided turn" for character and common words
- Inductive "attentions" : Jane Austen in "particular" and in "general"
- "Our skeptical as if" : conditional analogy and the comportment of Victorian prose
- "Something" in the way realism moves : Middlemarch and oblique character references
- "Whoever explains a 'but'" : tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction
- Afterword : the fate of character and the philology of everyday life
- Isbn
- 9781107181632
- Label
- Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain
- Title
- Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Farina
- Subject
-
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Charakter
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dictionaries
- Englisch
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English language
- English language -- Terms and phrases
- Fiction -- Authorship
- Fiction -- Authorship | History -- 19th century
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Language and languages in literature
- Language and languages in literature
- Literarische Gestalt
- Literarischer Stil
- Literatursprache
- Roman
- Terms and phrases
- Umgangssprache
- 1800-1899
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Language
- eng
- 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, like 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1979-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Farina, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 823/.809
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR868.L35
- LC item number
- F37 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Series volume
- 107
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English fiction
- Language and languages in literature
- English language
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Fiction
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- English fiction
- English language
- Fiction
- Language and languages in literature
- Charakter
- Englisch
- Literarische Gestalt
- Literarischer Stil
- Literatursprache
- Roman
- Umgangssprache
- Label
- Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain, Jonathan Farina
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-280) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Darwin's view from Todgers's : "A decided turn" for character and common words -- Inductive "attentions" : Jane Austen in "particular" and in "general" -- "Our skeptical as if" : conditional analogy and the comportment of Victorian prose -- "Something" in the way realism moves : Middlemarch and oblique character references -- "Whoever explains a 'but'" : tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction -- Afterword : the fate of character and the philology of everyday life
- Control code
- 987426245
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxii, 286 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107181632
- Lccn
- 2017020502
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987426245
- Label
- Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain, Jonathan Farina
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-280) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Darwin's view from Todgers's : "A decided turn" for character and common words -- Inductive "attentions" : Jane Austen in "particular" and in "general" -- "Our skeptical as if" : conditional analogy and the comportment of Victorian prose -- "Something" in the way realism moves : Middlemarch and oblique character references -- "Whoever explains a 'but'" : tact and friction in Trollope's reparative fiction -- Afterword : the fate of character and the philology of everyday life
- Control code
- 987426245
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxii, 286 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107181632
- Lccn
- 2017020502
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987426245
Subject
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Charakter
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dictionaries
- Englisch
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English language
- English language -- Terms and phrases
- Fiction -- Authorship
- Fiction -- Authorship | History -- 19th century
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Language and languages in literature
- Language and languages in literature
- Literarische Gestalt
- Literarischer Stil
- Literatursprache
- Roman
- Terms and phrases
- Umgangssprache
- 1800-1899
- Characters and characteristics in literature
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