Forms of speech in Victorian fiction
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Forms of speech in Victorian fiction
（Studies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature）
Longman, 1994
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Bibliography: p. 253-257
Includes indexes
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: pbk ISBN 9780582087453
内容説明
Forms of Speech in Victorian Fiction examines how Victorian writers used dialogue in the presentation of characters and the relationships between them, and its contribution to the work as a whole. Quoting over a hundred novels of the period, including all the major authors, many fascinating topics are discussed. The book also looks at the conventions which governed the writing and circulation of fiction, imposing certain restraints on the novelists. It also relates the dialogue used in Victorian fiction to evidence from other sources about the actual speech of the period. This book will be of great value to those studying the social history of the period, as well as literature, and will appeal to the general reader interested in Victorian fiction.
目次
1. Introduction : Speech in fiction.
2. Standard and non-standard speech.
3. Dialect.
4. Register.
5. Religious speech.
6. Oaths and euphemisms.
7. Speech of women and children.
8. Class and occupational speech.
9. Allusion and quotation.
10. Conventions of fiction.
11. Opinions of authors and critics.
12. Victorian fiction and Victorian reality.
Glossary of linguistic terms.
Bibliography.
Index.
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: hbk ISBN 9780582087460
内容説明
This is an exciting new series of lively, original and authoritative studies aimed at the student and general reader. Each book takes as its subject an author, genre or a single text. Some titles guide students through the perplexing crosscurrent of critical debate by offering fresh and fortnight reappraisals of their subjects which are of importance and value to the student. The series avoids a uniform critical identity or tight ideological approach, allowing the authors to explore their subjects in their own way, taking account of recent changes in critical perspective. Examines how Victorian writers used dialogue in the presentation of characters and the relationships between them, and its contribution to the work as a whole. The author explores the increasingly favoured use of standard form of educated speech and the subsequent devaluing of other forms. Key Features: Quotes over 100 novels of the period and includes most major UK authors. Considers the use of regional dialect for serious and even tragic effect, as well as comic relief. Discusses the effects of the conventions which governed the writing and circulation of fiction, imposing certain restraints on the novelist.
Relates the dialogue used in Victorian fiction to evidence from other sources about the actual speech of the period Undergraduates studying the social history of literature of the period and the general reader wishing to gain a deeper insight into Victorian fiction.
目次
- Standard and non-standard speech - representation of non-standard speech, slang, foreign speakers
- dialect - cockney, regional dialect
- register - use of names, titles and forms of address
- religious speech - evangelical speech, denominational speech
- oaths and euphemisms - swearing, concealing oaths, social attitudes to swearing, sexual euphemisms, prostitution
- speech of women and children - women's idiom, protest speech, masculine women, roles and strategies, children in fiction
- class and occupational speech - aristrocratic speech, occupational speech
- allusion and quotation - classical allusions, allusions to English literature, Biblical allusions, foreign phrases in conversation
- conventions of fiction - theatrical speech, courtship and proposals, virtue and standard speech, expository speech, direct and indirect speech
- opinions of authors and critics - dialogue and actual speech, dialect
- Victorian fiction and Victorian reality.
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