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Periodical Essay in Modernity : Oscar Wilde, G. K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf by R. Eric Tippin (2025, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101399538292

ISBN-139781399538299

eBay Product ID (ePID)9070925783

Product Key Features

Number of Pages216 Pages

Publication NamePeriodical Essay in Modernity : Oscar Wilde, G. K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf

LanguageEnglish

SubjectModern / 20th Century, General, Modern / 19th Century

Publication Year2025

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorR. Eric Tippin

FormatHardcover

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsThis sparklingly learned, curious and thoughtful book makes a fascinating argument about how the fin-de-siècle essay played a crucial role in the emergence of modernity. There is not a dull sentence in it.

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal828.80809

Table Of ContentAbbreviations Introduction 1. The Article Essay: Contexts, 1880-1920 2. Essay Tricks: Wilde, Chesterton and Literary Difficulty 3. Doubt in the Essay: Woolf, Chesterton and Urban Cacophony 4. Wisdom in the Essay: Wilde, Chesterton and the Aphorism Bibliography Index

SynopsisThis book takes seriously the late-Victorian periodical essay, treating it with the same formal care that another study might give to Thomas Hardy's poetry or Henry James's prose. It also attends to the essay's periodical context: advertisements, news, serial publication, material transience, and burying ubiquity. It challenges the distinction between 'serious' literature and mere 'articles' that appear in dailies, weeklies, and monthlies. And then it argues that, to understand the periodical essay between 1880 and 1920 is to understand the transitions of that period more clearly--from belief to doubt, from country to city, from thick time to clock time. The periodical essay is implicated in all these transitions. In making this argument, this book makes special reference to three authors: Oscar Wilde, G. K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf. All three command very different audiences, and this book suggests an association between the three as periodical essayists.