The Case of the Initial Letter by Gavin Edwards
Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the interests of a wider radicalism. -- .-
The Great Exhibition, 1851
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The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context
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Charlotte Bronte
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Invasions
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Speculative endeavors
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Legible bodies
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The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction
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Counterfactual Romanticism
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Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915
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British Literature and Archaeology, 1880-1930
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Spain in the Nineteenth Century
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The Emotions in Liberal Writing, C. 1790-C. 1920
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Marie Duval
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Pasts at play
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Spectral Dickens
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Women's writing for Punch magazine, 1868–1918
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Readers and mistresses
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts
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Creating character
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Engine of Modernity
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Instead of Modernity
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Margaret Harkness
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Interventions
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Dante Beyond Influence
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The Victorian Aquarium
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Victorian legs
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Beyond the Antislavery Haven
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The nineteenth-century present
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Madrid on the Move
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Worlding the South
'The Case of the Initial Letter is fundamentally an effort to redress ‘the failure of literary critics and cultural historians to accord the dual alphabet the attention that it deserves’With all the authority that upper-casing can muster, this is a Good Book.'
Amanda Lastoria, Simon Fraser University, SHARP News
'This study of Dickens’s career and his experiences with capital letters and reader reception extend superbly to the book’s conclusion, which addresses the rise of Modernism.'
Textual Cultures
Gavin Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781526146298 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526146290 |
| Title | The Case of the Initial Letter |
| Author | Gavin Edwards |
| Series | Interventions: Rethinking The Nineteenth Century |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2020-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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