Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 February 1998
- ISBN 9780198184423
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 225x144x19 mm
- Weight 418 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines three major nineteenth-century writers - Walter Scott, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Kingsley - in the context of the models of progress emerging from contemporary studies in geology and language. The deployment of varieties of speech in their novels throws light on how different genres - fictional and scientific - affected the century's use of metaphor and its often contradictory theories of progress.
MoreLong description:
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the emerging study of language shared with geology certain metaphors - co-existing but mutually incompatible - to describe theories of change. The Tower of Babel, Rise and Fall, Line and Branch were ideas that fed both disciplines; and linguistic study sometimes drew its imagery directly from geology, comparing varieties of language to fossils marking layers of development. At the same time, tension arose between the concept of language as a fixed sign and the wish to endorse it as a tool for change, an unpredictable maker of history.
Metaphors of Change looks in detail at three authors - Walter Scott, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Kingsley - whose handling of language, and in particular of dialect speech, demonstrates different angles of approach, and puts fiction into dialogue with science. Through textual analysis of the novels, and examination of contemporary scientific discourse, the book throws light on how different genres affected the century's use of metaphor and its often contradictory theories of progress.
Stitt's book is worth reading since it continues the task of examining the fiction of the nineteenth century as part of the culture of the times in the broad rather than the narrow sense.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Fossil and the Germ: Rhetorics of Etymology
Rocks and Living Tongues: Inductive Science and the Novels of the Present
Decadent Strength: Models of Progress
Figures of Speech: Language and the Family Dynamic
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
