This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the use of individual sections relevant to period literature courses, the book offers students and teachers a set of essays designed to reflect these approaches and to signal their potential for fruitful integration. Some of the essays answer the demand "Show me what literary critics (or textual editor; or book historians) do and how they do it", and stand as examples of the different concerns, methodologies and strategies employed. Others draw attention to the potential of the approaches in combination.
Contents: Introduction: the material text, Maureen Bell; Why has Q4
Romeo and Juliet such an intelligent editor? Lynette Hunter; Marvells coy
mistresses, Paul Hammond; Congreve and the integrity of the text, D.F.
McKenzie; The economics of the 18th-century provincial book trade: the case
of Ward and Chandler, C.Y. Ferdinand; Thomas Gray, David Hume and John Homes
Douglas, Roger Lonsdale; Texts in conversion: Coleridges Sonnets from
Various Authors (1796), David Fairer; Reading the Brontƫs abroad: A study in
transmission of Victorian novels in continental Europe, Inga-Stina Ewbank;
Sir Walter, sex and the SoA, Simon Eliot; Making (pre-) history: Mycenae,
Pausanias, Frazer, David Richards; Editing private papers: three examples
from Dreiser, James L. W. West III; Coercive suggestion: rhetoric and
community in revaluation, Martin Dodsworth; Re-reading Elizabeth Nowen,
Hermione Lee; Drastic reductions: partial disclosures and displaced
authorities in Muriel Sparks The Drivers Seat, Alistair Stead; Not
undesirable: J.M. Coetzee and the burdens of censorship, Peter D. McDonald;
Prospero in Cyberspace, Martin Butler; Texts and worlds in Amitav Ghoshs In
An Antique Land, Shirley Chew; Congratulations, Christopher Ricks; Index.
Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew, Simon Eliot, Lynette Hunter
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