The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature

di Josephine Guy (Autore)

Ian Small (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011

In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these developments, which the authors term the ‘textual turn,’ this study examines the textual condition of nineteenth-century literature. The authors explore works by Dickens, Wilde, Hardy, Yeats, Swinburne, FitzGerald, Pater, Arnold, Pinero and Shaw, connecting questions about what a work textually ‘is’ with questions about why we read it and how we value it. The study asks whether the textual turn places us in a stronger position to analyze the value of a nineteenth-century text—not for readers of the nineteenth century, but of the twenty-first. The authors argue that this issue of value is central to their discipline.

• Autore: Josephine Guy, Ian Small
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 210 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 550 gr.
• EAN: 9780415806121

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