Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an original and innovative study of the stylistic tics of canonical novelists including Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray and Eliot. Jonathan Farina shows how ordinary locutions such as ''a decided turn'', ''as if'' and ''that sort of thing'' condense nineteenth-century manners, tacit aesthetics and assumptions about wha...