Romantic Revisions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052138074X ISBN 13 : 9780521380744

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Leading American and British textual editors respond to the recent radical overhaul in the editing of Romantic texts in the light of developments in critical theory.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Romantic Revisions is an important collection, not least because of the symbolic gesture it makes in naming the state of Romantic texts as a discursive field in its own right." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

"As the first major collection of essays to integrate bibliographical and hermeneutic approaches to the Period, Romantic Revisions make a strong -and what I believe will be an influential -case for the variety of ways that the pursuit of textual studies can alter and enrich our understanding of Romanticism." Neil Fraistat, PBSA (Bibliographical Society of America)

"Readers interested in knowing how the interpretation of Romantic literary texts can be altered by a concrete editorial understanding of their manuscript form, publication history, and the conditions under which they have been prduced and received will find much to value in this wide-ranging collection of essays by many of the best-known contemporary editors and critics of Romantic literature....Robert Brinkley and Keith Hanley have produced a volume of essays that clearly demonstrates the interpretive value of a knowledge of literary revisions and the important issues that are currently shaping textual theory." Alan Bewell, Modern Philology

"As a group these essays richly exploit the wealth of manuscript evidence that has accumulated over the past several decades....One senses that here this collection of distinguished essays indeed looks forward, and that a new generation of romantic texts may be finding its rationale." Studies in Romanticism

Présentation de l'éditeur

Romantic writers, perhaps more than any others, revised their works incessantly, in manuscript and in successive published editions. Wordsworth's Prelude, for example (which remained in manuscript for fifty-two years) is well known in two editions, but the various drafts and stages of manuscript composition give us many more versions of a poem whose text is rendered increasingly unstable in the process of revision. This collection of essays, the first of its kind, responds to the recent radical overhaul in the editing of Romantic texts. Leading American and British editors of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Keats and Clare explain and illustrate the implications of their editorial methods for the ongoing process of revision (in texts and their reception) which they have both reflected and helped to produce. The volume offers insights into the urgent debate over editorial practices and their theoretical bases, while uncovering the complex revisionary processes of creativity at the heart of Romantic writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052138074X
• ISBN 13: 9780521380744
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Brinkley Robert, Hanley Keith
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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