Language, science and popular fiction in the Victorian fin-de-si ecle : the brutal tongue
"Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption and debasement popular fiction. Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, H
Print Book, English, 2005
Ashgate Pub. ; Ashgate Pub. Co., Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
180 pages.
9780754650829, 0754650820
1033016035
What does brutal language mean?
The voice of the people : Marie Corelli, the romance, and the language of the masses
Savage articulations in the romances of Grant Allen
The law and the larynx : R.L. Garner, H.G. Wells, and dehumanization of language
Standard English at stake in Stoker's Dracula