On Style in Victorian Fiction
Published on 25. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-108-44626-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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'... a great asset to the work on Victorian literature ... Highly recommended.' N. Birns, ChoiceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-44626-6 (9781108446266)
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Daniel Tyler
On Style in Victorian Fiction
Book
01/2022
Cambridge University Press
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Daniel Tyler is a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He has edited collections of essays including Dickens's Style (2013) and Poetry in the Making: Creativity and Composition in Victorian Poetic Drafts (2020).
Content
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 Bronte 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.