Dickens's dialogue
Subtitle: margins of conversation
By: George Goodin
Series: AMS studies in the nineteenth century -- No. 40
Publisher: AMS Press, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780404644703
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Dialogue in literature; Conversation in literature; Social interaction in literature; Characters and characteristics in literature
Description: "Explores the rhetoric of Dickens's characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies exemplify the conflicting forces of cooperation and violation that shape many conversations" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversation and its margins; title: Competitive conversation; title: Confidence, confidings, and con artists; title: The uses and usages of muddle; title: Conversational strategies in Dombey and son.