Strangers and Secrets

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Strangers and Secrets is written by R. A. York and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838635334 (ISBN 10) and 9780838635339 (ISBN 13).

What happens when we communicate with other people? The topic has been much studied in sociolinguistics, as well as by philosophers, sociologists, and communication theorists; but it is also one of the main concerns of novelists, and it is a major source of comedy, intrigue, and pathos in many novels. To illustrate this, R.A. York studies eight classics from nineteenth-century England - Emma, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, North and South, Barchester Towers, The Woman in White, Great Expectations, and Middlemarch - showing that literature is not only a celebration of the power to communicate, but also a celebration of the need to discipline communication.