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Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style: Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period - Couverture rigide

Cawthra, Gillian

 
9780333438299: Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style: Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period

Synopsis

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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