The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature: 07 (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature) - Hardcover

Guy, Josephine; Small, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415806127 ISBN 13: 9780415806121

Publisher: 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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415806127
• ISBN 13: 9780415806121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210