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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.
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy, and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary culture which changed permanently the relationships between writers, readers and publishers. Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses. It examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence. It considers the work of a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writers. It discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history. It contains useful, student-friendly features such as explanatory text boxes, chapter summaries, a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading. In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the historical conditions which produced it.
Nineteenth-century Britain saw the rise of secularism, the
development of a modern capitalist economy, multi-party democracy,
and an explosive growth in technological, scientific and medical
knowledge. It also witnessed the emergence of a mass literary
culture which changed permanently the relationships between
writers, readers and publishers.
In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian
Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and
variety of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the
historical conditions which produced it.
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