This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.

The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers b

Hilary Fraser provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of English prose in the nineteenth century which draws from a wide variety of fields including art, l

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own tempo