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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McCann, Andrew (1966-....)
Titre(s) : Popular literature, authorship and the occult in late Victorian Britain [Texte imprimé] / Andrew McCann
Publication : New York : Cambridge university press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-194 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 94
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Comprend : Introduction: popular fiction as media histrionics ; Property, professionalism and
the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa
1890 ; Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal
in George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson ; Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market
; Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel
; Arthur Machen and the 'differentia of literature' ; Conclusion: the popular fiction
of critical theory.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-190) and index
"With the increasing commercialization of publishing at the end of the nineteenth
century, the polarization of serious literature and popular fiction became a commonplace
of literary criticism. Andrew McCann cautions against this opposition by arguing that
popular fiction's engagement with heterodox conceptions of authorship and creativity
complicates its status as mere distraction or entertainment. Popular writers such
as George Du Maurier, Marie Corelli, Rosa Praed and Arthur Machen drew upon a contemporary
fascination with occult practices to construct texts that had an intensely ambiguous
relationship to the proprietary notions of authorship that were so central to commercial
publishing. Through trance-induced or automatic writing, dream states, dual personality
and the retrieval of past lives channeled through mediums, they imagined forms of
authorship that reinvested popular texts with claims to aesthetic and political value
that cut against the homogenizing pressures of an emerging culture industry"
Sujet(s) : Littérature et ésotérisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1870-1914
Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Roman populaire anglais -- 1870-1914 -- Thèmes, motifs
Ésotérisme -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107064423. - ISBN 1107064422 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438853677
Notice n° :
FRBNF43885367
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