{"product_id":"hardys-literary-language-and-victorian-philology-9780198122616","title":"Hardy's Literary Language and Victorian Philology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dennis Taylor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\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 \u003cem\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e, Taylor's study also examines the influence on Hardy's language of the founding and development of this period of the \u003cem\u003eOED\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591747846295,"sku":"9780198122616","price":22115.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198122616.webp?v=1774974359","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hardys-literary-language-and-victorian-philology-9780198122616","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}