On Style in Victorian Fiction
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- Editor: Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: July 2024
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108446266
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Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims to efface itself or that an absence of style may in itself represent the nineteenth-century ideal. This collection provides a major assessment of style in Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style - the language, techniques and artistry of prose - is inseparable from meaning and that it is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. Leading scholars in the field present an engaging assessment of major Victorian novelists, illustrating how productive and illuminating close attention to literary style can be. Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century, and propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what style does, as much as what style is.
Read more- Provides comprehensive coverage of the major Victorian novelists and their important contributions to literary style
- Showcases a wide range of world-class scholars
- Helps develop our understanding of the difficult concept of literary 'style'
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'… a great asset to the work on Victorian literature … Highly recommended.' N. Birns, Choice
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- Date Published: July 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108446266
- length: 327 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.476kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. On Style: An Introduction Daniel Tyler
Part I. Aspects of Style:
2. Novel Poetics: Three Studies in the Craft of Style Corinna Russell
3. Not Straightforward: Characteristics of the Psychology of Grammar in the Victorian Realist Novel Philip Davis
4. Why Always Dorothea?: Rhetorical Questions in Canon and Archive Sarah Allison
5. Victorian Transport Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
6. Telegraphy David Trotter
Part II. Authors:
7. Thackeray: Styles of Fallibility David Kurnick
8. Jane Eyre's Style Janet Gezari
9. Windburn on Planet Brontë Elaine Scarry
10. The Man in White: Wilkie Collins's Styles John Bowen
11. Fiction and the Law: Stylistic Uncertainties in Trollope's Orley Farm Dinah Birch
12. George Eliot's Rhythms Daniel Tyler
13. The Late Great Dickens: Style Distilled Garrett Stewart
14. Meredith's Style Matthew Sussman
15. Hardy and Style Mark Ford
16. Kipling, and Daniel Karlin
17. James's Style Nicola Bradbury.
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