Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction,Used

Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction,Used

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Promising Language explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically promising to marry, in Victorian fiction. The concept of the promiseas speech act, as social practice and legal contract, and as structural principle and toposlies at the intersection of several emergent nineteenthcentury discourses: the science of language (notably etymology and philology), utilitarian jurisprudence (especially the freedom of contract applied to personal relations), and the aesthetics of the novel (predominantly realism). With this in mind, Craig offers new readings of several classic Victorian novels, including Pickwick Papers, Jane Eyre, Adam Bede, The Egoist, and The Wings of the Dove.

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