Jane Austen

A Style in History

Cris Yelland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66629-3 (ISBN)

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From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening's entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. 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. The book draws extensively on historical sources, especially the work of writers like Johnson, Hugh Blair and Thomas Sheridan, and analyses how Austen negotiated her path between the fundamentally masculine concerns of eighteenth-century prescriptivists and her own situation of a female writer reading her work aloud to a female audience.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Romanticism
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	335 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-66629-4 / 0367666294
ISBN-13	978-0-367-66629-3 / 9780367666293
Zustand	Neuware