The Culture of Collected Editions

by A. Nash (Editor)

Overview

The phenomenon of the collected edition has made a vital contribution to the construction of authorship, the history of reputation and the formation of the canon. Discussing a range of authors and subjects from Ben Jonson to the internet, this collection of essays brings together the disciplines of Literary and Cultural Criticism, Textual Criticism, Bibliography, Book and Publishing History, to ignite debate on the influence of famous editions of the past and the significance of present-day collected editions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403902665
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/09/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL ANESKO Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI Emily Brown Jeffries Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA PETER DAVISON Former Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute IAN DONALDSON Grace 1 Professor of English, University of Cambridge, UK SIMON GATRELL Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA WARWICK GOULD Professor of English and Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK PHILIP HORNE Professor of English, University College, London, UK GRACE IOPPOLO Lecturer in English, University of Reading, UK PETER LINDENBAUM Professor of English, University of Indiana, USA J.C.C. MAYS Professor of English at University College, Dublin JEROME J. McGANN John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA JAMES McLAVERTY Senior Lecturer in English, Keele University, UK ANDREW MURPHY Reader in English, University of St Andrews DONALD H. REIMAN Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware, USA

Table of Contents

List of Plates List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon; A.Nash PART ONE: AUTHORIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Collecting Ben Jonson; I.Donaldson Dividing and Conquering Milton; P.Lindenbaum 'For Who so Fond as Youthful Bards of Fame?' Pope's Works of 1717; J.McLaverty Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture; M.Anesko The Collected Editions of Hardy, James, and Meredith, with Some Concluding Thoughts on the Desirability of a Taxonomy of the Book; S.Gatrell Henry James and the Cultural Frame of the New York Edition; P.Horne 'The Dead Should Be Protected From Their Own Carelessness': The Collected Editions of Robert Louis Stevenson; A.Nash Contested Districts: Synge's Textual Self; W. Gould PART TWO: EDITORIAL AND MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVES 'Much They Ought Not To Have Attempted': Editors of Collected Editions of Shakespeare from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; G.Ioppolo Shakespeare Goes to College: Oxford and Cambridge Collected Editions; A.Murphy The Life in Death of Editorial Exchange: the Bollingen Collected Coleridge; J.C.C.Mays Romantic Collected Editions: Varieties of Editorial Experience; D.H.Reiman An Editorial Assessment of The Complete Works of George Orwell ; P.Davison What Bowers Wrought: An Assessment of the Center for Editions of American Authors; M.J.Bruccoli Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantam World; J.J.McGann Index

Editorial Reviews

'It is the mark of a good and necessary book that one's first reaction should be: Why hasn't this been done before? This historical survey of the culture of the collected edition, from Jonson to Orwell with prophetic glimpses of the electronic future, not only introduces the subject but substantially covers it. The issues raised, by every chapter, are material. The collected edition is in the first instance a canonical monument but it also represents a huge investment of cultural capital - in the form of cash and expert time. Among the many readers of this book will be the patrons and foundations which make the great ventures of literary criticism possible.' - John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London

'Culture of Collected Editions finally makes the collected works itself an object of study...the volume continually raises interesting questions about the role of collected editions in organizing the literary system.' - Andrew Piper, Columbia University Sharp News

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