The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature EPUB
by Josephine Guy, Ian Small
Part of the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature series
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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.
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- Pages:210 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781136471926
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:210 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/03/2012
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- ISBN:9781136471926
