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The contributors seek to extend the discussion about textual studies beyond any narrow professional scope; thus, none of the essays assumes any training in textual studies. Also, the focus of the book is on the literary genre most familiar to most readers: the novel. Authors discussed include Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Many people read literary works, but few do so with a steady sense of their constructedness as texts--of the ways in which "genesis, transmission, and editing" have shaped them as conveyors of meaning. This book shows that the experience of reading is more rewarding for such awareness.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Textual Studies and the Common Reader | 1 | |
| The Issues of Authority in a Scholarly Edition: Editing Cather | 30 | |
| The Stuff That Don't Matter | 52 | |
| William Faulkner, the Crisis of Masculinity, and Textual Instability | 64 | |
| The Scholarly Editor as Biographer | 81 | |
| Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority | 91 | |
| Editing Thackeray: A History | 111 | |
| Conrad in Print and on Disk | 126 | |
| A Future for Editing: Lawrence in Hypertext | 141 | |
| In Dreams Begins Responsibility: Novels, Promises, and the Electronic Editor | 160 | |
| Response: Whose Work Is It Anyway? Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying about the Author and Love the Text | 180 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 199 | |
| Index | 201 |
Overview
Textual Studies and the Common Reader collects eleven original essays by editors of literary texts and theorists concerned about the implications of what such editors do. The volume's organizing theme is textual studies, the domain of which, in one contributor’s words, is the "genesis, transmission, and editing of texts."
The contributors seek to extend the discussion about textual studies beyond any narrow professional scope; thus, none of the essays assumes any training in ...