Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination

Author: Peter J. Capuano

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1501772872

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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens's use of bodily idioms—"right-hand man," "shoulder to the wheel," "nose to the grindstone"—against the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English.


Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion

Author: Marcia McClintock Folsom

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1603294791

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Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion, completed at the end of her life, can be challenging for students to approach. They are surprised to meet a heroine so subdued and self-sacrificing, and the novel's setting during the Napoleonic wars may be unfamiliar. This volume provides teachers with avenues to explore the depths and richness of the novel with both Austen fans and newcomers. Part 1, "Materials," suggests editions for classroom use, criticism, and multimedia resources. Part 2, "Approaches," presents strategies for teaching the literary, contextual, and philosophical dimensions of the novel. Essays address topics such as free indirect discourse and other narrative techniques; social class in Austen's England; the role of the navy during war and peacetime; key locations in the novel, including Lyme Regis and Bath; and health, illness, and the ethics of care.


Dickens and the Trials of Imagination

Dickens and the Trials of Imagination

Author: Garrett Stewart

Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Stewart investigates the fanciful impulse among Dickens's characters, their exchange of semblance for reality, their use of the imagination as a means of retaliating against the fallen Dickensian world.


The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination

Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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"Gertrude Himmelfarb here explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. Behind the drama of ideas that played itself out in the lives and writings of these individuals was the free play of the moral imagination. From her own long engagement with these subjects, Ms. Himmelfarb describes how these thinkers, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. And it is the liveliness of their imagination that makes their reflections - on politics and literature, religion and society, marriage and sex - sometimes unpredictable, often controversial, always exciting, and as illuminating and pertinent today as they were then."--BOOK JACKET.


Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases

Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases

Author: James Main Dixon

Publisher:

Published: 1891

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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This is a classical text of a dictionary of English idioms and phrases. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.


Victorian Hands

Victorian Hands

Author: Peter J. Capuano

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814214398

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Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture.


The Geography of the Imagination

The Geography of the Imagination

Author: Guy Davenport

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781567920802

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In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.


Changing Hands

Changing Hands

Author: Peter Capuano

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-06

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0472052845

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A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction