Dickens Women and Language

by Patricia Ingham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077609
• ISBN13: 9780802077608
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"