The textual condition of nineteenth-century literature
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The textual condition of nineteenth-century literature
（Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature, 7）
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Novel 3. Poetry 4. Non-Fictional Prose 5. Drama
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