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Buurma, Rachel Sagner.

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The anonymous system: Anonymity and corporate authority in nineteenth-century British literary culture (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Hawker).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The anonymous system: Anonymity and corporate authority in nineteenth-century British literary culture (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Hawker)./
Author:	Buurma, Rachel Sagner.
Description:	197 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2226.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3179709
ISBN:	0542198517

The anonymous system: Anonymity and corporate authority in nineteenth-century British literary culture (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Hawker).
Buurma, Rachel Sagner.

The anonymous system: Anonymity and corporate authority in nineteenth-century British literary culture (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Hawker). - 197 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2226.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2005.

This dissertation is about the Victorian debate over anonymous periodical publication and the literary and cultural significance of the concept of corporate authority central to it. The debate over whether periodical articles should be signed or anonymous stood out in Victorian discussions about the rapidly expanding world of print, and focused on the tension between individual and collective or corporate versions of authorship. In some cases, Victorian readers and writers saw periodical anonymity as simply hiding an individual author's name. More often, as Laurel Brake explains, these readers and writers understood that periodical anonymity "supported the corporate identity of the journal as a journal, and mitigated the differences of its individual contributors" (4). Absence of signature in periodicals was usually joined with the sustained use of the pronoun "we" to signify the text's collective or corporate voice; the phrase "'I' vs 'we'" became shorthand for the anonymity debates. Thus while many current critical accounts represent periodical anonymity as exclusively centered around a dynamic of the disclosure and secrecy of an individual author's name, I show that anonymity in Victorian literary culture as often signified a corporate literary authority unattached to a single body and not reducible to a single authorial consciousness. Victorian authorship, I further argue, was as often understood by readers and writers to be produced by the material practices of print culture as it was understood to be a function of individual authors' thoughts and intentions.

ISBN: 0542198517Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

The anonymous system: Anonymity and corporate authority in nineteenth-century British literary culture (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Elizabeth Hawker).
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