The Author in Victorian Literary Culture
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1399572091
ISBN-13
9781399572095
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2026
Print length
240 Pages
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Explains the reversal between Romantic expressivism and Modernist formalism by analysing Victorian ideas of authorship.
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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