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Andrea Selleri - Author in Victorian Literary Culture, Inbunden

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Author in Victorian Literary Culture

Av Andrea Selleri

1343 kr

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This book traces the history of the idea of the author between the two key critical moments of Romantic expressivism and Modernist formalism. The former dominated anglophone criticism up to the 1830s, and placed authorial expression at the very centre of criticism; the latter became the standard after the First World War, and regarded the author as an undesirable distraction. The book shows that the shift was prepared in Victorian literary culture. Combining analyses of Victorian critical theories and practices with case studies centred on the critical reception of canonical writers such as A.C. Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, the book explores why and how ‘impersonality’ became the dominant aesthetic ideal in anglophone criticism.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-30
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 262
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399572095
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Andrea Selleri is an independent scholar with an interest in the relationship between literature, criticism and philosophy. He has a PhD in English and comparative literary studies from the University of Warwick and has worked as a researcher in the UK and Turkey. He is a reviewing editor for the Journal of Victorian Culture and has published widely on this topic in journals. He has also edited two books about literature and philosophy, the latest being the third volume of the series Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Routledge, 2024).

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For nineteenth-century writers, the ‘author’ was certainly not dead, but very much a going concern. Through illuminating readings of canonical and non-canonical texts, The Author in Victorian Literary Culture offers important new perspectives on the period and its critical debates.

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