{"product_id":"dickenss-idiomatic-imagination-the-inimitable-and-victorian-body-language-9781501772856","title":"Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDickens's Idiomatic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of \"low\" and \"slangular\" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas.\u003c\/b\u003e Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens's use of bodily idioms--\"right-hand man,\" \"shoulder to the wheel,\" \"nose to the grindstone\"--against the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Our Mutual Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. \u003ci\u003eDickens's Idiomatic Imaginatio\u003c\/i\u003en establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter J. Capuano is Associate Professor of English and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eChanging Hands\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50487762518290,"sku":"9781501772856","price":159.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_964e5fff-2849-4732-a92c-fd5cfd62a6b6.jpg?v=1730453346","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dickenss-idiomatic-imagination-the-inimitable-and-victorian-body-language-9781501772856","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}