Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language

By: Capuano, Peter J.

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens's use of bodily idioms--"right-hand man," "shoulder to the wheel," "nose to the grindstone"--against the broader...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501772856
• ISBN13: 9781501772856
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"