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'Only in learning from Farina himself have I become more sensitized to the luminosity that inheres in the vernacular. Indeed, if we follow Farina along his chosen, if surprising path, we will enjoy the rewards of discovery - about character, the novel, and realism, about written worlds and the social existences we all inhabit. ... [This book] has sharpened my awareness of how we use language with one another, even in my own everyday life.' Barabara Black, Review 19 'Only in learning from Farina himself have I become more sensitized to the luminosity that inheres in the vernacular. Indeed, if we follow Farina along his chosen, if surprising path, we will enjoy the rewards of discovery - about character, the novel, and realism, about written worlds and the social existences we all inhabit. ... [This book] has sharpened my awareness of how we use language with one another, even in my own everyday life.' Barabara Black, Review 19 'Moving gracefully between the smallest units of language and the largest, Farina provides abundant insights into a range of nineteenth-century issues and texts. ... Scholars of realism, liberal aesthetics, and what was once called the 'Victorian temper' will find much to interest and excite them.' Matthew Sussman, Modern Philology

'Only in learning from Farina himself have I become more sensitized to the luminosity that inheres in the vernacular. Indeed, if we follow Farina along his chosen, if surprising path, we will enjoy the rewards of discovery - about character, the novel, and realism, about written worlds and the social existences we all inhabit. ... Everyday Words has sharpened my awareness of how we use language with one another, even in my own everyday life.' Barabara Black, Review 19 'Only in learning from Farina himself have I become more sensitized to the luminosity that inheres in the vernacular. Indeed, if we follow Farina along his chosen, if surprising path, we will enjoy the rewards of discovery - about character, the novel, and realism, about written worlds and the social existences we all inhabit. ... [This book] has sharpened my awareness of how we use language with one another, even in my own everyday life.' Barabara Black, Review 19

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Jonathan Farina is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, where he is Director of the Center for Literature and the Public Sphere, and an Associate Director of the Honors Program. He is Associate Editor of The Wordsworth Circle.

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