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In:A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXV] 2024
► pp. 60–74

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1.1.4
The nineteenth century

Textual studies in an age of abundance

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Published online: 8 November 2024
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Abstract
Classical textual theory based itself on the idea of an authorial manuscript which was almost always missing; but textual studies of the modern period, as theorised by McGann, face a different problem: not an insufficiency of data but a surfeit of it. In fact, not all nineteenth-century authors thought to preserve their manuscripts, but many did, and the abundance of material produced by this change in literary culture creates a whole new set of challenges for the textual scholar. Where does textual authority lie in a complex field of multiple texts, both in draft and in successive print editions?
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