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| Foreword: Cross Your Fingers ... | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction: Promising: Language/Narrative/Law | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Language and the Victorians | 19 |
| Ch. 2 | Victorian Promises | 47 |
| Ch. 3 | Legal Fictions: Narrating Breach of Promise | 77 |
| Ch. 4 | Engaging Lies in Jane Eyre | 121 |
| Ch. 5 | Right Speaking in Adam Bede | 153 |
| Ch. 6 | Promising Marriage in The Egoist | 185 |
| Ch. 7 | Questioning Rhetoric in Can You Forgive Her? | 213 |
| Ch. 8 | Dying Promises in The Wings of the Dove | 247 |
| Afterword: Cross Your Heart ... | 279 | |
| Notes | 283 | |
| Works Cited | 313 | |
| Cases Cited | 325 | |
| Index | 327 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Edward Holyan
reviewed Promising language on January 09, 2016
Promising language
Ah. Compulsory school reading. Isn't it delightful?!
I think it a slight flaw of the school system to make books that are as boring as hell compulsory (actually Hell would probably be a bit more exciting, all fiery and whatnot). Why? Do these people like torturing kids? Do they get a perverse pleasure out of turning our brains to goo?
Answer: yes. Yes they do.
This book can be summed up as so:
- Coconuts fall from trees
- Jane Austen is cool but radical
- Midwifery is a hazardous occupation
- Crocodiles put a stopper on the imagination
- Canberra is thrilling
- Women who bake bread for their husbands are not feminists
- Nothing that Fay Weldon says can be taken at face value
I will now go off to hide this book in corner and proceed to forget it ever existed. :)
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