English fiction and the evolution of language, 1850-1914
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 371862_56636
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107101166
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914 (CUP, 2015) makes an innovative intervention in the field of Victorian literature and science by tracing connections between fiction and theories of language change in the period. This substantial interdisciplinary study (at 247pp) brings a diverse range of literary genres and canonical authors together with philological, anthropological and biological texts to show how science and fiction interacted to generate new stories of language evolution from decay and degeneration to utopian progress. The book is the product of five years’ research and archival work around the UK.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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