Date Thesis Awarded
5-2020
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
English
Advisor
Suzanne Raitt
Committee Members
Deborah Morse
Kim Wheatley
Talbot Taylor
Abstract
This thesis uses linguistic and historical context to analyze the speech in Victorian fiction. Studying the novels The Heart of Midlothian by Walter Scott, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, the thesis makes use of nineteenth-century texts to demonstrate ideologies and social forces at work during this time.
Recommended Citation
Hall, Hunter, "Speaker into Specimen: The Representation of Dialect in Victorian Fiction" (2020). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1535.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1535
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