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Literary Names
Personal Names in English Literature
Alastair Fowler
304 pages
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216x135mm
978-0-19-959222-7
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Hardback
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06 September 2012
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- Broader historical range than any other study of literary names
- Takes in names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names
- Chapters devoted to names in Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov
Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself. He traces the history of names through Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Thackeray, Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov, showing how names
often turn out to be the thematic focus. Fowler shows that the associations of names, at first limited, become increasingly salient and sophisticated as literature itself develops.Readership: Students, scholars, and general readers of English literature.
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Alastair Fowler, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh Alastair Fowler is Regius Professor Emeritus of Edinburgh University, and was previously Professor of English at the University of Virginia. For many years he divided his time between the United States and Britain, where he now lives. His publications include an annotated edition of Paradise Lost (1968); Kinds of Literature (1982); and Renaissance Realism (2003). His interest in literary names goes back to his Witter Bynner lecture at Harvard in 1974.
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"this book is something of a marvel." - London Review of Books "Fowler — now in his eighties — has more learning between his ears than most of us could acquire in eight lifetimes ... [his] book has the inspirational virtue that it makes one think one's own thoughts." - John Sutherland, Literary Review "[an] engagingly and sometimes overflowingly serendipitous book ... lively and informative ... generally delightful" - Claude Rawson, Times Literary Supplement
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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Naming in History
2: Modes of Naming
3: Ihe Faerie Queene
4: Hidden Names
5: Shakespeare
6: Milton's Changing Names
7: Assumed and Imposed Names
8: Thackeray and Dickens
9: Arrays
10: Joyce and Nabokov
Afterword
References
Glossary
Index
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