Rhetorical transformations: The figurative language of the industrial revolution.

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dc.contributor.advisorCottom, Daniel,en_US
dc.contributor.authorBoots-marshall, Jennifer.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:19:57Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:19:57Z
dc.date.issued2005en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is an examination of the rhetoric and images used in the British industrial rhetoric of the mid-nineteenth century. This body of work encompasses the industrial novel as well as non-fiction works. This study discusses the implications bound up with rhetorically transforming laborers into hands, machines into gods from the Greco-Roman and Christian traditions, and the industrialist into the mythic figure of the self-made man. The final chapter examines the assumptions and contradictions in the rhetoric of the riot, which often involves sublime imagery. My basic thesis is that in the novels of this era rhetoric, through metaphors and imagery, imaginatively serves to erase social history and the scope of human responsibility and power. The more original aspect of my thesis arises from my attention to the tensions and contradictions in the writers' attitudes and how these are imagistically regenerated.en_US
dc.format.extentvi, 241 leaves ;en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/941
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4392.en_US
dc.noteAdviser: Daniel Cottom.en_US
dc.subjectLiterature, English.en_US
dc.subjectIndustries in literature.en_US
dc.subjectEnglish literature 19th century History and criticism.en_US
dc.subjectSocial classes in literature.en_US
dc.subjectFigures of speech.en_US
dc.subjectLiterature and society Great Britain History 19th century.en_US
dc.subjectRhetoric.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.titleRhetorical transformations: The figurative language of the industrial revolution.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of English
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI3203301en_US

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