The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature Contributor(s): Guy, Josephine (Author), Small, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415806127 ISBN-13: 9780415806121 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 820.900 |
LCCN: 2011033228 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.88 lbs) 210 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |