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Promising Language

Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Paperback
Book Promising Language Randall Craig
Libristo code: 04700734
Publishers State University of New York Press, December 1999
Promising Language explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically p... Full description
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Promising Language explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically promising to marry, in Victorian fiction. The concept of the promise -- as speech act, as social practice and legal contract, and as structural principle and topos -- lies at the intersection of several emergent nineteenth-century discourses: the science of language (notably etymology and philology), utilitarian jurisprudence (especially the freedom of contract applied to personal relations), and the aesthetics of the novel (predominantly realism). With this in mind, Craig offers new readings of several classic Victorian novels, including Pickwick Papers, Jane Eyre, Adam Bede, The Egoist, and The Wings of the Dove.

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Full name Promising Language
Author Randall Craig
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 1999
Number of pages 331
EAN 9780791444269
Libristo code 04700734
Publishers State University of New York Press
Weight 472
Dimensions 148 x 226 x 18

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Place qualifiers > Europe > Western Europe > Ireland
Place qualifiers > Europe > Western Europe > United Kingdom, Great Britain
Biography, Literature & Literary studies > Literature: history & criticism
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