Shuffling off
John Sutherland, 18 April 1985
Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction
by Garrett Stewart.
Harvard, 403 pp., £19.80, December 1984,0 674 19428 4 Show More
by Garrett Stewart.
Harvard, 403 pp., £19.80, December 1984,
Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction
by Barbara Hardy.
Owen, 215 pp., £12.50, January 1985,9780720606119 Show More
by Barbara Hardy.
Owen, 215 pp., £12.50, January 1985,
Language and Class in Victorian England
by K.C. Phillipps.
Basil Blackwell in association with Deutsch, 190 pp., £19.50, November 1984,0 631 13689 4 Show More
by K.C. Phillipps.
Basil Blackwell in association with Deutsch, 190 pp., £19.50, November 1984,
“... and mistakes, while good novels try to know and understand.’ Contradict that if you dare. K.C. Phillipps has written an older-fashioned, useful study. His starting-point is A.S.C. Ross’s seminal article, ‘Linguistic Class-Indicators in Present-Day English’ (1954). Ross’s learned observations inspired Nancy Mitford’s amusing game that had everyone ... ”
