Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction : Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley

This book examines three major nineteenth-century writers - Walter Scott, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Kingsley - in the context of the models of progress emerging from contemporary studies in geology and language. The deployment of varieties of speech in their novels throws light on how different genres - fictional and scientific - affected the century's use of metaphor and its often contradictory theories of progress.