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).

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.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction: The Mind in the WorkPart I Victorian Authorialism 1. The Genesis of Victorian Authorialism2. Authorialism in Theory3. Authorialism in PracticePart II Aestheticist Proto-Formalism 4. Swinburne, His Critics, and the Idea of the Dramatic5. Wilde and the Rhetoric of Self-RevelationConclusion: Aestheticism to Formalism

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).

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.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction: The Mind in the WorkPart I Victorian Authorialism 1. The Genesis of Victorian Authorialism2. Authorialism in Theory3. Authorialism in PracticePart II Aestheticist Proto-Formalism 4. Swinburne, His Critics, and the Idea of the Dramatic5. Wilde and the Rhetoric of Self-RevelationConclusion: Aestheticism to Formalism

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).

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.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction: The Mind in the WorkPart I Victorian Authorialism 1. The Genesis of Victorian Authorialism2. Authorialism in Theory3. Authorialism in PracticePart II Aestheticist Proto-Formalism 4. Swinburne, His Critics, and the Idea of the Dramatic5. Wilde and the Rhetoric of Self-RevelationConclusion: Aestheticism to Formalism