On style : an introduction /Daniel Tyler --Aspects of style.Novel poetics : three studies in the craft of style /Corinna Russell --Not straightforward : characteristics of the psychology of grammar in the Victorian realist novel /Philip Davis --Why always Dorothea? : rhetorical questions in canon and archive /Sarah Allison --Victorian transport /Robert Douglas-Fairhurst --Telegraphy /David Trotter --Authors.Windburn on planet Brontë /Elaine Scarry --The man in white : Wilkie Collins's styles /John Bowen --Fiction and the law : stylistic uncertainties in Trollope's Orley farm /Dinah Birch --George Eliot's rhythms /Daniel Tyler --The late great Dickens : style distilled /Garrett Stewart --Meredith's style /Matthew Sussman --Hardy and style /Mark Ford --Kipling; and /Daniel Karlin --James's Style /Nicola Bradbury. "Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims to efface itself or that an absence of style may in itself represent the nineteenth-century ideal. This collection provides a major assessment of style in Victorian fiction and demonstrates that style - the language, techniques and artistry of prose - is inseparable from meaning and that it is through the many resources of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known. Leading scholars in the field present an engaging assessment of major Victorian novelists, illustrating how productive and illuminating close attention to literary style can be. Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century, and propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what style does, as much as what style is"-- | 
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