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ON STYLE IN VICTORIAN FICTION Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims to efface itselforthatanabsenceofstylemayinitselfrepresentthenineteenth- centuryideal.Thiscollectionprovidesamajorassessmentofstylein Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style – the language, tech- niques,andartistryofprose–isinseparablefrommeaningandthatit is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. Leading scholars in the field present anengagingassessmentofmajorVictoriannovelists,illustratinghow productive and illuminating close attention to literary style can be. Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century and propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what styledoes,asmuchaswhatstyleis. daniel tyler is Vice-Master, Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He has edited collections of essays including Dickens’s Style (2013) and Poetry in the Making: CreativityandCompositioninVictorianPoeticDrafts(2021). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:33, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108427517 doi:10.1017/9781108614931 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-42751-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:33, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 ON STYLE IN VICTORIAN FICTION Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims to efface itselforthatanabsenceofstylemayinitselfrepresentthenineteenth- centuryideal.Thiscollectionprovidesamajorassessmentofstylein Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style – the language, tech- niques,andartistryofprose–isinseparablefrommeaningandthatit is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. Leading scholars in the field present anengagingassessmentofmajorVictoriannovelists,illustratinghow productive and illuminating close attention to literary style can be. Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century and propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what styledoes,asmuchaswhatstyleis. daniel tyler is Vice-Master, Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He has edited collections of essays including Dickens’s Style (2013) and Poetry in the Making: CreativityandCompositioninVictorianPoeticDrafts(2021). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:34, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:34, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 ON STYLE IN VICTORIAN FICTION edited by DANIEL TYLER UniversityofCambridge Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:34, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108427517 doi:10.1017/9781108614931 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-108-42751-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:34, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 ON STYLE IN VICTORIAN FICTION Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims to efface itselforthatanabsenceofstylemayinitselfrepresentthenineteenth- centuryideal.Thiscollectionprovidesamajorassessmentofstylein Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style – the language, tech- niques,andartistryofprose–isinseparablefrommeaningandthatit is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. Leading scholars in the field present anengagingassessmentofmajorVictoriannovelists,illustratinghow productive and illuminating close attention to literary style can be. Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century and propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what styledoes,asmuchaswhatstyleis. daniel tyler is Vice-Master, Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He has edited collections of essays including Dickens’s Style (2013) and Poetry in the Making: CreativityandCompositioninVictorianPoeticDrafts(2021). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:33, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig, on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18:33, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614931

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