Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-siècle: The Brutal TongueAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 180 páginas Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle. Focusing on a variety of literary and non-literary texts, the book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre frequently indicted for causing linguistic corruption and debasement - popular fiction. Ferguson demonstrates how Darwinian biological, philological, and anthropological accounts of 'primitive' and animal language were co-opted into wider cultural debates about the apparent brutality of popular fiction, and shows how popular novelists such as Marie Corelli, Grant Allen, H.G. Wells, and Bram Stoker used their fantastic narratives to radically reformulate the relationships among language, thought, and progress that underwrote much of the contemporary prejudice against mass literary taste |
Contenido
What Does Brutal Language Mean? | 13 |
The Voice of the People | 47 |
Savage Articulations in the Romances of Grant Allen | 71 |
The Law and the Larynx | 105 |
Standard English at Stake in Stokers Dracula | 131 |
Epilogue | 155 |
175 | |
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