Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism (Series)

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Editorial theory has always been an important aspect of literary study. Recently, it has also become a significant part of the newer forms of literary theory and criticism, as earlier views of editing as providing final authorial intention have been reexamined and challenged. Although various individual books on the subject of editing have appeared, there has not been a series to gather together the best scholarship in the field and examine the various issues and controversies surrounding it. The Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism series has been designed to fill that need.

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Traces of the Old, Uses of the New

The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies

By Amy E. Earhart
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Digital Projects
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Mapping the history of digital literary scholarship, Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific histories of digital study

Proofs of Genius

Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age

By Amanda Gailey
Subjects: Digital Projects, Literary Studies, Editorial Theory
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

The first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre and its obscured role in shaping the American literary canon

The Textuality of Soulwork

Jack Kerouac's Quest for Spontaneous Prose

By Timothy Hunt
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A new critical perspective on Kerouac's work and his textual practices.

Publishing Blackness

Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850

By George Hutchinson & John Young
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

The first of its kind, this volume sets in dialogue African Americanist and textual scholarship, exploring a wide range of African American textual history and work

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age

By Amy E. Earhart & Andrew Jewell
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship

Textual Awareness

A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann

By Dirk Van Hulle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Modern Literature, European Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Compares the writing processes behind three central works of the modernist canon, revealing fascinating connections between literary and textual criticism

The Fluid Text

A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen

By John L. Bryant
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

The first coherent theoretical, critical, and editorial approach to the study of literary revision

Managing Readers

Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books

By William W. E. Slights
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, British and Irish Literatures, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A sideways look at books that sheds light on the activities of authors, printers, and readers during the English Renaissance

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books

By Nicholas Raymond Frankel
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Art, Architecture
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Investigates Wilde's valorization of literature as one of the decorative arts

Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture

The Otho La3amon

By Elizabeth Johnson Bryan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A new interpretive approach with wide implications for the study of medieval literatures

The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture

Edited by George Bornstein & Theresa Lynn Tinkle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Literary Criticism and Theory, History, Art, Architecture
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Crystallizes advanced research on the "meanings" that are created by a work's physical construction

Resisting Texts

Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning

By Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Editorial Theory, 19th Century Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Reveals how language and texts are used to control both the present and the past

Much Labouring

The Texts and Authors of Yeats's First Modernist Books

By David Holdeman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Editorial Theory
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Explores Yeats's engagement with issues of gender and class.

The Margins of the Text

Edited by David C. Greetham
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

These essays challenge the positivist, patriarchal assumptions of earlier approaches to textual criticism.

A Poem Containing History

Textual Studies in The Cantos

Edited by Lawrence S. Rainey
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Editorial Theory
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A suggestive survey of new approaches to a twentieth-century classic

Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age

Theory and Practice

Third Edition

By Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A practical introduction to the aims, controversies, and procedures of scholarly editing

The Literary Text in the Digital Age

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Gathers essays by major figures in humanities computing on the implications of the new digital technology for the study of literary texts.

Emily Dickinson's Open Folios

Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing

By Marta L. Werner
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Undertakes a radically new model of critical editing

The Hall of Mirrors

Drafts & Fragments and the End of Ezra Pound's Cantos

By Peter Stoicheff
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Contemporary German Editorial Theory

Edited by Hans Walter Gabler, George Bornstein, and Gillian Borland Pierce
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, German Studies
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Gathers the best work on editorial theory in Germany.

Palimpsest

Editorial Theory in the Humanities

Edited by George Bornstein & Ralph Williams
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism
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