Capuano Peter (87 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 323pp. Trade paperback, VG, index, bibliography, chapter notes, b&w illustrations and photos, sifts through Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labor, gender, class, and racial categorization. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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 lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative purposes. Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies. Book.

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No Binding. Condition: VG+. A VG or better lot of sixteen original release 8 x 10 stills. Inventory #67477. Photographic Image.

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Condition: New. A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 525. . 2015. Paperback. . . . .

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