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Reductive ReadingReductive Reading

Reductive Reading

Sarah Allison

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Introduction the syntax of Victorian moralizing: on choosing a proxy for style -- In defense of reading reductively -- The shockingly subtle criticism of the London Quarterly Review, 1855-1861 -- Relative clauses and the narrative present tense in George Eliot -- generalization and declamation : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's present-tense poetics -- A moral technology: speech tags in Charles Dickens's dialogue -- Conclusion : a grammar of perception

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OL20193509W

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English literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryDiscourse analysis, literaryCriticism, great britainEthics in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticismTheoryLiterary Discourse analysisData processingCriticismHistory

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