Stitt, Megan Perigoe. Metaphors of Change in the
Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley
(Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1998).
During the nineteenth century the study of language and linguistic
analysis shared with geology certain metaphors for describing change and
theories of progress. This book analyses how Kingsley, Walter Scott, and
Elizabeth Gaskell treated language and particularly dialect in their novels.
From textual study of the novels and an analysis of the language of contemporary
science, Stitt explores how different genres affected the Victorian age’s
use of metaphor and its frequently conflicting theories of progress.
Geology;
Science;
Change,
Notion of; Progress;
Language;
Alton
Locke; Westward
Ho!; Hereward
the Wake. |
