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This book shows uniquely how the most powerful aspects of language in literary texts are those that the reader does not see. It makes these hidden features visible by a close read of six well-known Victorian novels including Bleak House and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The readings of the novels provide tools to illustrate how texts encode assumptions and social meaning. This has until now only been done for short pieces of writing.
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Ingham, who is not identified, seeks to provide visibility to aspects of writing that are normally unseen or unnoticed, for example meaning coded by the hierarchical structure of natural language, and the varying scop of the negative. Her six essays examine the question of Vanity Fair , past and present in The Mill on the Floss , deixis in Bleak House , the structural scope of the negative in Little Dorrit , and other topics. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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