Dickens's Style / edited by Daniel Tyler.

Other author Tyler, Daniel, 1981- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxii, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge Studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 86
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 86. ^A344711
Contents Cover; Dickens's Style; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Editions and abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Chapter One Dickens's umbrellas; Notes; Chapter Two Dickens by the clock; Notes; Chapter Three Dickens's rhythms; Notes; Chapter Four Spectres of style; Notes; Chapter Five Dickens and the form of the historical present; Dickens in the Old World and the New: American Notes and Pictures from Italy; The Chimes: the making of an historical present; Breaking news and the present tense; A Tale of Two Cities: history just about to happen; Conclusion; Notes
Contents Chapter Six 'Gigantic domesticity': the exaggeration of Charles DickensNotes; Chapter Seven Style and the making of character in Dickens; Notes; Chapter Eight Snarling Charles: a Saxon style of restraint; A native style; A native gruff style; A native gruff plain style; Dickens's aural grotesque; The Browning growl; At home in The Growlery; The breviloquence of brusque; Notes; Chapter Nine Compound interest: Dickens's figurative style; Notes; Chapter Ten Reading the book of himself: The Uncommercial Traveller and 'Dickensian' style; Notes; Chapter Eleven Lived death: Dickens's rogue glyphs
Contents NotesChapter Twelve Dispensing with style; Notes; Select bibliography; Index; Series
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 278-279) and index.
LCCN 2012051608
ISBN9781107028432 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1107028434 (hardback : alk. paper)

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