The periodical essay in modernity : Oscar Wilde, G.K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf /
"This book ... challenges the distinction between 'literature' and mere 'articles' that appear in dailies, weeklies and monthlies, highlighting the periodical essay as one of the most read and discussed literary forms between 1880 and 1920 in Britian. It also makes special r...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "This book ... challenges the distinction between 'literature' and mere 'articles' that appear in dailies, weeklies and monthlies, highlighting the periodical essay as one of the most read and discussed literary forms between 1880 and 1920 in Britian. It also makes special reference to three authors who command different audiences but are associated through their shared status as periodical essayists: Oscar Wilde, G.K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf. By attending to the relationship between essays and their periodical contexts (advertisements, announcements, weather reports and news), this book offers new readings of familiar authors and examines essays as implicated in the nature of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399538299 1399538292 |