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Promising Language : Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction.
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| 著者・編者 | Craig, Randall T., |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 1999 |
| ページ数 | 331 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-38505＞ |
解説
Argues that Victorian legal, linguistic, and cultural attitudes toward promises-especially promises to marry-had a formative effect on novels of the period.
Promising Language explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically promising to marry, in Victorian fiction. The concept of the promise-as speech act, as social practice and legal contract, and as structural principle and topos-lies at the intersection of several emergent nineteenth-century 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.