Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination : The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language.

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Victorian Idiom and the Dickensian "Toe in the Water"
1. The Beginnings of Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: Dombey and Son's "Right-Hand Man"
2. "Shouldering the Wheel" in Bleak House
3. "Brought Up by Hand": The Manual Outlay of Great Expectations
4. Sweat Work and Nose Grinding in Our Mutual Friend
Conclusion: The Afterlife of Idiomatic Absorption Among Novelists and Critics
Appendix A: List of 100 Commonly Used Idioms
Appendix B: Nineteenth-Century British Novel Corpus for Idiom Usage Comparison
Appendix C: Full Code Used for Data Comparisons
Bibliography
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