The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet

by Gavin Edwards

The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism. It discusses Dickens's satire - on 'Shares' in Our Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey's position as the 'Son' of Dombey and Son - alongside the proto-modernist typography of suffragist poet Augusta Webster and the work of Marx's translators transforming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526146290
• ISBN13: 9781526146298
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"