Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style

Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues...
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Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style by Reader, Simon

Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style

€144,06

Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style

€144,06
Author: Simon Reader
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the notes of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vernon Lee, and George Gissing record ephemeral and nonlinear experiences, revealing each author's desire to leave their fragments scattered and unused.

Presenting notes in terms of genre allows Reader to suggest inventive new accounts of key Victorian texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the Origin of Species, and Hopkins's devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret these works as meditations on the ethics of compiling and using data. In this way, Notework recasts information collection as a personal and expressive activity that comes into focus against large-scale systems of knowledge organization. Finding resonance between today's digital culture and its nineteenth-century precursors, Reader honors our most disposable, improvised, and fleeting written gestures.



Author: Simon Reader
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/22/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781503615267


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2022

About the Author
Simon Reader is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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