Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style

A book exploring the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The analysis of particular syntactic features in novels of the time shows clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.

Inhalt
Patterns of language - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean", Meredith's "The Egoist", Gissing's "New Grub Street", Conrad's "Nostromo", Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers", Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; the nominal group - Gissing's "New Grub Street" and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"; the verbal group - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; the adjunct - Conrad's "Nostromo" and Meredith's "The Egoist".