Dickens's style

Dickens's style / edited by Daniel Tyler.

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 d...

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Other Authors: Tyler, Daniel, 1981- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 86.
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Literary style.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870
Dickens, Charles > 1812-1870
1800-1899
English language > 19th century > Style.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English language > Style
Literary style
Sprache
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Table of 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.

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