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Chapter 3 - Not Straightforward: Characteristics of the Psychology of Grammar in the Victorian Realist Novel

from Part I - Aspects of Style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

By
Philip Davis
Edited by
Daniel Tyler
Daniel Tyler
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter considers the unobtrusive words, the conjunctions, and the grammar of Victorian realist prose, drawing on examples from Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant and Anthony Trollope. The styles of Victorian realist fiction are shown to lodge within their very grammar a psychology of style; they register in the turns and returns of their sentences, in their ‘forms of retardation, inference, and backwards-reappraisal’, thinking and reflection from within the midst of narrated experience.

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grammarsyntax realismpsychologyconjunctionsdeixismiddleGaskellOliphantTrollope
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On Style in Victorian Fiction , pp. 41 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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