Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Commonplace Book
Author: George GissingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880
Author: Supplement to the Catalogue of the General Library of the University of Aberdeen
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher: Aberdeen : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Old Style
Author: Claudia StokesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by earlier American audiences, Claudia Stokes contends. On the contrary, readers were taught to value familiarity, traditionalism, and regularity. Literary originality was often seen as a mark of vulgar sensationalism and poor quality. In Old Style Stokes offers the first dedicated study of a forgotten nineteenth-century aesthetic, explicating the forms, practices, conventions, and uses of unoriginality. She focuses in particular on the second quarter of the century, when improvements in printing and distribution caused literary markets to become flooded with new material, and longstanding reading practices came under threat. As readers began to prefer novelty to traditional forms, advocates openly extolled unoriginality in an effort to preserve the old literary ways. Old Style examines this era of significant literary change, during which a once-dominant aesthetic started to give way to modern preferences. If writing in the old style came to be associated with elite conservatism—a linkage that contributed to its decline in the twentieth century—it also, paradoxically provided marginalized writers—people of color, white women, and members of the working class—the literary credentials they needed to enter print. Writing in the old style could affirm an aspiring author's training, command of convention, and respectability. In dismissing unoriginality as the literary purview of the untalented or unambitious, Stokes cautions, we risk overlooking something of vital importance to generations of American writers and readers.
Authors and Their Works with Dates
Author: Ebenezer Cobham BrewerPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated The Print Collector
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York, Circulating Department, July 1900
Author: Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Recasting the Culture of Ephemera
Author: Todd Steven GernesPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Oscare Wilde
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Author: