Notework : Victorian literature and nonlinear style /

"Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering a more expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither draft...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reader, Simon, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:	Text technologies.
Subjects:	Authors, English > 19th century > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Literary form > History > 19th century. English literature. Literary form. 1800-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Notework : an introduction
Styles of inconsequence : Charles Darwin
Thinking pieces : George Gissing and Roland Barthes
Gerard Manley Hopkins and microsocial form
A computer program called "Wilde"
Unrecovering Vernon Lee
Conclusion : asymmetry