Everyday words and the character of prose in nineteenth-century Britain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Farina, Jonathan, 1979- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 107.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.