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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11565270.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Cases cited": p. 325.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword: Cross Your Fingers ... -- Introduction: Promising: Language/Narrative/Law -- Ch. 1. Language and the Victorians -- Ch. 2. Victorian Promises -- Ch. 3. Legal Fictions: Narrating Breach of Promise -- Ch. 4. Engaging Lies in Jane Eyre -- Ch. 5. Right Speaking in Adam Bede -- Ch. 6. Promising Marriage in The Egoist -- Ch. 7. Questioning Rhetoric in Can You Forgive Her? -- Ch. 8. Dying Promises in The Wings of the Dove -- Afterword: Cross Your Heart.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 331 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Promising language.".
- catalog identifier "0791444252 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791444260 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Promising language.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog relation "Promising language.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.809355 21".
- catalog subject "Betrothal Law and legislation Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Betrothal in literature.".
- catalog subject "Courtship in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Legal stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Love stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Marriage in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR878.B47 C73 2000".
- catalog subject "Promises in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword: Cross Your Fingers ... -- Introduction: Promising: Language/Narrative/Law -- Ch. 1. Language and the Victorians -- Ch. 2. Victorian Promises -- Ch. 3. Legal Fictions: Narrating Breach of Promise -- Ch. 4. Engaging Lies in Jane Eyre -- Ch. 5. Right Speaking in Adam Bede -- Ch. 6. Promising Marriage in The Egoist -- Ch. 7. Questioning Rhetoric in Can You Forgive Her? -- Ch. 8. Dying Promises in The Wings of the Dove -- Afterword: Cross Your Heart.".
- catalog title "Promising language : betrothal in Victorian law and fiction / Randall Craig.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".