The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet

By Gavin Edwards

Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the interests of a wider radicalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526146290
• ISBN13: 9781526146298
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"