| Research Abstract |
The aim of this collaborative research is firstly to build up the large-scale corpus of the 18th- and 19th-century British novels and Charles Dickens’s works, letters and speeches and secondly to clarify some essential features of the language and style of Dickens with the corpus, which includes, besides Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith, FrancesBurney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, Frederick Marryat, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Reade,Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Anne Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and John Galsworthy
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