Edwards The Case of the Initial Letter

Charles Dickens and the politics of the dual alphabet
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4630-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the interests of a wider radicalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Gavin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: The case of the initial letter
2 Typographic leveling in an age of revolution
3 The Land of Liberty
4 Dombey - and Son – and Daughter
5 People, things, and abstractions
6 Print capitalism
7 Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham
8 Writin’large
9 PIP and D O C T O R M A R I G O L D
10 Dickens, the suffragists and proto-modernism

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gavin Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales