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Dickens's dialogue : margins of conversation
- Title
- Dickens's dialogue : margins of conversation / George Goodin.
- Author
- Goodin, George
- Publication
- New York : AMS Press, Inc., [2013]
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Details
- Series Statement
- AMS studies in the nineteenth century, 0196-657X ; No. 40
- Uniform Title
- AMS studies in the nineteenth century ; no. 40.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Conversation and its margins -- Competitive conversation -- Confidence, confidings, and conning -- The uses and usages of muddle -- Conversational strategies in Dombey and son.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6689
- ISBN
- 9780404644703 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0404644708 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013018092
- OCLC
- 846489566
- Author
- Goodin, George.
- Title
- Dickens's dialogue : margins of conversation / George Goodin.
- Publisher
- New York : AMS Press, Inc., [2013]
- Description
- 171 pages ; 24 cm.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- AMS studies in the nineteenth century, 0196-657X ; No. 40AMS studies in the nineteenth century ; no. 40.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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" -- Provided by publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6689