Cultural climate and linguistic style : change in English fictional prose from the late Victorian to the early modern period

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Cultural climate and linguistic style : change in English fictional prose from the late Victorian to the early modern period

Gillian Cawthra

Macmillan, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 167-168

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This book explores the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. It acknowledges a shift of sensibility during the period from the sureness of empiricism to the doubt and uncertainty of idealism. Added to this, there was also a transfer from a pragmatic and extrovert "Weltanschauung" to a syntax characterized by a subjective appeal to the imagination. The analysis of particular syntactic features in a random selection of novels of the time shows, through comparisons between authors, clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.

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  • Patterns of language - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean", Meredith's "The Egoist", Gissing's "New Grub Street", Conrad's "Nostromo", Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers", Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
  • the nominal group - Gissing's "New Grub Street" and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"
  • the verbal group - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
  • the adjunct - Conrad's "Nostromo" and Meredith's "The Egoist".

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