bells of the church of St Mary-le-Bow). In fact the term is commonly used to denote people who come from a wider area of the innermost eastern suburbs of London and also an adjoining area south of the Thames. `Cockney' is also used to describe a strong London accent and it is associated with working-class origins. A feature of Cockney speech is rhyming slang : `wife' is referred to as `trouble and strife' and `stairs' as `apples and pears'. 6. Explain the following notions: snobbery, inverted snobbery, posh and being posh, blue/ white collar workers, underclass, social mobility. inverted snobbery middle-class people try to adopt working-class values and habits. posh of a class higher than the one I belong to; being posh being pretentious 7. In the early years of the twentieth century, the playwright and social commentator George Bernard Shaw remarked that an Englishman only had to open his mouth to make some other Englishman despise him
and France, until 1847 He died on the 9 June 1870 after a stroke. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of publishing fiction at the time. Other writers of the time would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, but Dickens often wrote his in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. His writing style was florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. He satired of British aristocratic snobbery Dickens is famed for many things--his depiction of the hardships of the working class, his intricate plots, his sense of humour. But he is perhaps most famed for the characters he created. His novels were heralded early in his career for their ability to capture the everyday man on paper and thus create a memorable character to whom readers could relate, and envision as a real person. BLEAK HOUSE (1853) belongs to Dickens's greatest works of social criticism. The novel is built
Over the next years, he wrote a number of novels, each with a historical setting. He maintained the anonymous habit he had begun with Waverley. He became unfamos, when Austen's star rose. Jane Austen is considered merely an entertaining "woman's novelist" in the 19th century. She was seen as the major English novelist of the first decades of the 19th c. Austen wrote about upper-middle class society and women's role in it. The society is secure in its values, privileges and snobbery. Her created society defines itself in terms of land, money and class: Praises good conduct, manners, sound reason, marriage as an admirable social institution; Practicality; Stresses the importance of learning and education of women. Novels of manners: good conduct, sound reason, marriage as an admirable social institution, and novels of sensibility to a degree even realistic. Regional Novels: Bath/Southampton/London.
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