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Dickens's dialogue : margins of conversation / George Goodin.

Title
Dickens's dialogue : margins of conversation / George Goodin.
Author
Goodin, George.
Publication
New York : AMS Press, Inc., [2013]

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Description
171 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores the rhetoric of Dickens's characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies exemplify the conflicting forces of cooperation and violation that shape many conversations" --
Series Statement
AMS studies in the nineteenth century, 0196-657X ; No. 40
Uniform Title
AMS studies in the nineteenth century ; no. 40.
Subject
  • Characters and characteristics in literature
  • Conversation in literature
  • Dialogue in literature
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Social interaction in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Conversation and its margins -- Competitive conversation -- Confidence, confidings, and conning -- The uses and usages of muddle -- Conversational strategies in Dombey and son.
ISBN
  • 9780404644703 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0404644708 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013018092
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library