Title: Dickens's dialogue
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" --
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Dialogue in literature, Conversation in literature, Social interaction in literature, Characters and characteristics in literature
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)