Anonymity, Corporate Authority, and the Archive: The Production of Authorship in Late-Victorian England
Anonymity, Corporate Authority, and the Archive: The Production of Authorship in Late-Victorian England
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匿名、公司权威和档案：维多利亚时代晚期英国作者身份的产生
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2007
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R. Buurma
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本文认为，在维多利亚晚期的文学和印刷文化中，集体和集体的文学权威模式持续存在。虽然现代批评家通常认为维多利亚时代的作者身份是以个人为中心，受保密和披露的动态支配，但《硅谷》中关于匿名的定期辩论表明，维多利亚时代的读者和作家接受了一种更灵活、更集体的作者身份概念。玛丽·伊丽莎白·霍克笔名出版的《Ixe小姐》的情节、语言和副文本，以及与这部小说有关的作者和出版商的通信，提供了维多利亚晚期读者(如果不是最近的评论家)所熟悉的集体和集体解释模式的代表。霍克的文本和它揭示的档案材料也表明，现代读者可能会富有成效地转向维多利亚时代的过去，以扩展今天在19世纪学术中流传的作者身份的定义。
This essay considers the persistence of collective and corporate models of literary authority within late-Victorian literature and print culture. While modern critics often understand Victorian authorship to be individually centered and governed by a dynamic of secrecy and disclosure, the periodical debates about anonymity that intensified in the fin de siècle suggest that Victorian readers and writers embraced a more flexible, collective notion of authorship. The plot, language, and paratext of Mary Elizabeth Hawker's pseudonymously published Mademoiselle Ixe, as well as the author-publisher correspondence concerning the novel, offer a representation of the corporate and collective interpretive modes that would have been familiar to late-Victorian readers, if not to recent critics. Hawker's text and the archival material it brings to light also suggest that modern readers might productively turn to the Victorian past to expand the definitions of authorship that circulate throughout nineteenth-century scholarship today.