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

by Gillian Cawthra

Overview

A book exploring the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The analysis of particular syntactic features in novels of the time shows clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349094042
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Edition description:	1st ed. 1989
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Patterns of language - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean", Meredith's "The Egoist", Gissing's "New Grub Street", Conrad's "Nostromo", Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers", Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; the nominal group - Gissing's "New Grub Street" and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"; the verbal group - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; the adjunct - Conrad's "Nostromo" and Meredith's "The Egoist".