Romantic Objects, Victorian Collections

Scribal Relics and the Authorial Body
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dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1-3
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dc.bibliographicCitation.volume21
dc.contributor.authorSommer, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-11T11:21:59Z
dc.date.available2024-10-11T11:21:59Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.updated2024-08-20T09:11:21Z
dc.description.abstractOver the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic. This article reconstructs how authorial script gradually transformed into a collectible object pursued as a memento and a commodity. Letters, drafts, and fair copies by major modern writers found their way into the collections of British aristocrats and American industrialists at the same time that hunting for literary autographs diversified into a middle‐class pursuit. Surveying recent scholarship on nineteenth‐century collecting and material culture, the essay offers a condensed cultural history of the literary manuscript as a collectible and draws attention to how collectors and collecting feature in fictional texts of the period. It focuses on the artefactual mobility and custodial afterlives of Romantic papers in Victorian literature and culture, exploring a form of collecting which crossed boundaries between periods and national literary traditions.
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/lic3.12703
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3168
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issn1741-4113
dc.relation.issn1741-4113
dc.relation.journalLiterature Compassen
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:820
dc.subject.ddcddc:941
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudies
dc.subject.fieldbritishstudies
dc.subject.fieldculturalstudies
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.subject.fieldhistory
dc.titleRomantic Objects, Victorian Collections
dc.title.alternativeScribal Relics and the Authorial Body
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