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Patricia Ingham - Dickens Women and Language - 9780802077608 - KRF0011726
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Dickens Women and Language

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Description for Dickens Women and Language Paperback. The ambiguous struggle between convention and dissent in the language he uses for representing women charges Dickens? novels with their uneasy excitement and power. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 190. Paperback, in very good condition.

This is the first full-length study of the treatment of women in Dickens’ novels to make use of modern critical approaches. It replaces traditional biographical methods with a new linguistic model which directs attention back to the texts.

Patricia Ingham’s innovatory approach characterises Dickens’ novelistic language by relating it to linguistic representations of women in contemporary non-fictional works (handbooks on womanly conduct, documentary works on prostitution, and Florence Nightingale’s Cassandra). This analysis reveals that Dickens’ individual account of the womanly ideal is shot through with contradiction. Fallen women are both degraded and valuable, worthless and powerful; ‘ideal’ women are ... Read more

The book’s conclusion is that the ambiguous struggle between convention and dissent in the language he uses for representing women charges Dickens’ novels with their uneasy excitement and power.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Number of pages
152
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802077608
SKU
KRF0011726
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Patricia Ingham
Patricia Ingham is Fellow and Senior Tutor in English at St. Anne's College, Oxford, and Times Lecturer in English Language.

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