The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature - Couverture rigide

Guy, Josephine; Small, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415806127 ISBN 13 : 9780415806121

Editeur : Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Josephine Guy is Professor of Modern Literature, University of Nottingham. Ian Small is Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415806127
• ISBN 13: 9780415806121
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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