Abstract: drama of methodological innovation that literary critics have staged throughout the last decade. From new formalism and thing theory to surface reading and the broader post-critical turn, recent work on Victorian literature calls forth distinctively new reading practices. Witness, for example, Franco mo retti’s “distant reading” of nineteenthcentury detective fiction, sh aron ma rcus’s “ just reading” of Victorian romance plots, ev e se dgwick’s “reparative reading” and her accompa nying course on Victorian textures, el aine Freedgood’s metonymic reading of the “things” of Victorian realism, and Jacques ra nciere’s realignment of the politics of aesthetics after years of archival work on nineteenth-century workers’ writings. 1 B ut these critics are not simply bringing new methodologies back to their comfortable Victorianist homes in order to go on with the business as usual of making new readings of old texts for a field-specific audience. ra ther, these new methodologies—of great interest to the discipline of en glish literature as a whole—borrow from the nineteenth
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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