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Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology Book

Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198122616 : 0198122616 : 03 Feb 1994 : This is the first detailed exploration of Hardy's linguistic `awkwardness', a subject that has long puzzled critics. Dennis Taylor's pioneering study shows that Hardy's language must be understood as a distinctive response to the philological and literary issues of his time, in particular the founding and compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary.Read More

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    This pioneering study is the first detailed exploration of Hardy's linguistic "awkwardness," a subject that has long puzzled critics. Dennis Taylor shows that Hardy's language must be understood as a distinctive response to the philological and literary issues of his time. Deeply influenced by the Victorian historical study of language, Hardy deliberately incorporated into his own writing a sense of language's recent and hidden history, its multiple stages and classes, and its arbitrary motivations. In what is the first major treatment of a writer's relation to the Oxford English Dictionary, Taylor's study also examines the influence on Hardy's language of the founding and development of this period of the OED.

  • 0198122616
  • 9780198122616
  • Dennis Taylor
  • 9 December 1993
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 448
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