The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies
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The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies

Scholarly Editing and Book History

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The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies

Scholarly Editing and Book History

About this book

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed aesthetic objecthood. Concurrently, the advent of digital scholarly editions is recasting the editorial endeavour.The Work and The Reader in Literary Studiestests its argument against a range of book-historically inflected case-studies from Hamlet editions to Romantic poetry archives to the writing practices of Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. It newly justifies the practice of close reading in the digital age.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Book, the Work and the Scholarly Edition
  10. Chapter 2 Reviving the Work-Concept: Music, Literature and Historic Buildings
  11. Chapter 3 The Digital Native Encounters the Printed Scholarly Edition Called Hamlet
  12. Chapter 4 The Reader-Oriented Scholarly Edition
  13. Chapter 5 Digital Editions: The Archival Impulse and the Editorial Impulse
  14. Chapter 6 The Work, the Version and the Charles Harpur Critical Archive
  15. Chapter 7 Book History and Literary Study: The Late Nineteenth Century and Rolf Boldrewood
  16. Chapter 8 Book History and Literary Study: Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence
  17. Chapter 9 Adaptation, Folklore and the Work: The Ned Kelly Story
  18. Chapter 10 Conclusion: What Editors Edit, and the Role of the Reader
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index