Jane Austen: A Style in History

ISBN-13: 9780367666293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Cris Yelland

Opis

This book looks in detail at Jane Austen's style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary, her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her most important contribution to the technique of fiction, free indirect discourse.

Spis treści

1. Prescriptivism, perspicuity and the female reader and writer  2. Abstraction, synonymy and metaphor in Jane Austen's lexis  3. Reading aloud  4. Jane Austen and Johnsonian syntax  5. Experiments with speech and thought 6. Jane Austen and free indirect discourse: a developmental account  7. The Victorian (re)construction of Jane Austen

 

O autorze

Dr. Cris Yelland is the author of several publications, including 'Speech and Writing in the Northern Star', Labour History Review, 'The Communist Manifesto - a linguistic approach', Studies in Marxism , and 'Hardy's Allusions and the Problem of "Pedantry", Language and Literature. After successfully defenindg his thesis on 'The Construction of the Rural Worker in Thomas Hardy's Pastoral Fiction', Dr. Yelland receive his Ph.D. in 1992. He was also Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Principal Lecturer in English at Teesside Polytechnic/Teesside University from 1974-2011.