Dickens's style / edited by Daniel Tyler.

Contributor(s):

Tyler, Daniel, 1981- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 86.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781107250260
1107250269
9781139236201
1139236202
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9781139891226
1107241561
9781107241565
1107527430
9781107527430
1107251095
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1107247772
9781107247772
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dickens's style.DDC classification:

823/.8 23

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PR4594

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Contents:

Introduction / Daniel Tyler -- Dickens by the clock / Matthew Bevis -- Dicken's rhythms / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- Spectres of style / Daniel Tyler -- Dickens and the form of the historical present / Clare Pettitt -- 'Gigantic domesticity': the exaggeration of Charles Dickens / Freya Johnston -- Style and the making of character in Dickens / Philip Horne -- Snarling Charles: a Saxon style of restraint / Rebekah Scott -- Compound interest: Dicken's figurative style / Jennifer Gribble -- Reading the book of himself: The Uncommercial traveller and 'Dickensian' style / Bharat Tandon -- Lived death: Dicken's rogue glyphs / Garrett Stewart -- Dispensing with style / Helen Small.

Summary: 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.-- Provided by publisher.Review: "Anyone seriously interested in Dickens, especially anyone who cares about his language, will welcome the publication of Dickens's Style. The thirteen essays collected here bring a fresh and consistently illuminating perspective to bear on an aspect of Dickens that has largely been neglected or undervalued in most recent studies of his work ... Dickens's Style marks a valuable return to consideration of Dickens's language. As such, it is a useful reminder both of what makes Dickens distinctive and of how close reading at its best remains fundamental to an understanding of his work."-- Provided by Dickens Quarterly

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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.-- Provided by publisher.

"Anyone seriously interested in Dickens, especially anyone who cares about his language, will welcome the publication of Dickens's Style. The thirteen essays collected here bring a fresh and consistently illuminating perspective to bear on an aspect of Dickens that has largely been neglected or undervalued in most recent studies of his work ... Dickens's Style marks a valuable return to consideration of Dickens's language. As such, it is a useful reminder both of what makes Dickens distinctive and of how close reading at its best remains fundamental to an understanding of his work."-- Provided by Dickens Quarterly

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