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The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature) - Softcover

Book 5 of 70: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Guy, Josephine; Small, Ian

 
9781032927435: The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032927437 ISBN 13: 9781032927435
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032927437
ISBN 13 
9781032927435
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
210