Gissing and the auditory imagination: Language, identity, and estrangement in Born in Exile
An interest in language, and especially spoken language, is a well-established feature of Gissing's work. Born in Exile (1892), however, inscribes a new salience for Gissing's exploration of language as literary device, not least in its relation to the modelling of identity, as well as in...
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2020
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| description | An interest in language, and especially spoken language, is a well-established feature of Gissing's work. Born in Exile (1892), however, inscribes a new salience for Gissing's exploration of language as literary device, not least in its relation to the modelling of identity, as well as in the evolutionary tropes of adaptation which mark Godwin Peak's rise and fall. This essay examines Gissing's use of language as a device of exile and socio-cultural estrangement, paying particular attention to his interest in form as semiotic resource, alongside the indexicalities which both standard English and Cockney can be made to reveal. Gissing's auditory imagination emerges as a key tool in his depiction of the anxieties and fault lines of Victorian society. |
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