{"product_id":"hardys-literary-language-and-victorian-philology-0198122616","title":"Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0198122616\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Taylor, Dennis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering study is the first detailed exploration of Hardy's linguistic \"awkwardness,\" a subject that has long puzzled critics. Dennis Taylor shows that Hardy's language must be understood as a distinctive response to the philological and literary issues of his time. Deeply influenced by the Victorian historical study of language, Hardy deliberately incorporated into his own writing a sense of language's recent and hidden history, its multiple stages and classes, and its arbitrary motivations. In what is the first major treatment of a writer's relation to the Oxford English Dictionary, Taylor's study also examines the influence on Hardy's language of the founding and development of this period of the OED.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51667127992608,"sku":"NEW0198122616","price":273.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61Fif1xIeOL.jpg?v=1778959435","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/hardys-literary-language-and-victorian-philology-0198122616","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}