Copyright © 2023 by Peter J. Capuano

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First published 2023 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Capuano, Peter J., author.

Title: Dickens’s idiomatic imagination : the inimitable and Victorian body language / Peter J. Capuano.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023004248 (print) | LCCN 2023004249 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501772856 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501772863 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501772870 (epub) | ISBN 9781501772887 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870—Literary style. | Human body and language. | Human body in literature. | English language—Idioms.

Classification: LCC PR4594 .C37 2023 (print) | LCC PR4594 (ebook) | DDC 823/.8—dc23/eng/20230208

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023004248

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023004249

Cover art by Michael Burton, M.F.A.