“Cool” Reading: Bagehot, the Book Review, and the Fiction of Literary Knowledge

IF 0.3 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/vpr.2022.0017
Jonathan Farina
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Abstract:This article situates Walter Bagehot’s reviews in the history of modern knowledge provided by Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool. I suggest this epistemic disposition emerges in the 1860s as book reviews transition from summary arbiters of taste into new knowledge. Bagehot’s essays are technically reviews, occasioned by biographies, editions, and scholarly books about authors. Yet Bagehot subordinates the books under review to promote his own thesis. Insofar as they deviate from generic nineteenth-century reviews, Bagehot’s essays reveal the emergence of “literary knowledge”—a form of knowledge abstracted from and about a literary text but not just a biographical or historical contextualization of it.
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“酷”阅读:白芝浩、书评与文学知识的虚构
摘要:本文将白芝浩的评论置于刘的《酷的法则》所提供的现代知识史之中。我认为这种认识论倾向出现在19世纪60年代,当时书评从品味的概括仲裁者转变为新知识。白芝浩的文章在技术上是评论,由传记、版本和关于作者的学术书籍引起。然而,白芝浩为了宣传自己的论文而将审查中的书籍置于次要地位。白芝浩的文章偏离了19世纪的一般评论,揭示了“文学知识”的出现——一种从文学文本中抽象出来的知识形式,而不仅仅是文学文本的传记或历史背景。
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