Literary Names

Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

• Broader historical range than any other study of literary names
• Takes in names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names
• Chapters devoted to names in Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov

Literary Names

Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

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Literary Names

Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

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Literary Names

Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

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Literary Names

Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

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Literary Names

Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

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What's in a literary name?

By Alastair Fowler Names and naming are topics of perennial interest, but until recently there were few general discussions of names as a literary feature. This is strange, since questions about names keep coming up in criticism. How are character names chosen? Are literary names always meaningful, or are some characters named quite casually? Does each genre have a list of first names available only for that sort of writing?

Posted on September 24, 2012

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Tennyson in 2012

By Gregory Tate 2012 has been a good year for the Victorian novel. The dizzying number of adaptations, exhibitions, and readings which have been organised to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens testify to the ongoing popularity of nineteenth-century fiction, and of this most famous of Victorian novelists in particular.

Posted on October 15, 2012

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