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The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
The Textual Condition of NineteenthCentury Literature - Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Author:Josephine Guy, Ian Small 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... more » 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.« less