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1.2.4Anglophone traditions
Dealing with drafts of modern literary manuscripts
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Published online: 8 November 2024
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Abstract
Spurred on by new editions of works of modern literature in which manuscript materials are often extant,
editorial theory since the 1980s has been laying the groundwork for the wider introduction of a genetic perspective on the works
of Anglophone authors. Resistance to the idea from the 1940s is traced. The editing of writers’ journals during the 1970s–1990s
shows a hesitation to follow the brave lead of the Harvard edition of Emerson’s Journals in recording in-text cancellations and
additions. Editors’ conceptions of the reader of their editions have evolved since 1950. The advent of the Cornell Wordsworth and
Cornell Yeats editions broadened understanding of the editorial-archival function; the method has become accepted as the base-line
responsibility of digital editors.
Article outline
- The 1950s–1960s, and barbed-wire editions
- Letters editions
- Editions of literary works in MS, and of writers’ journals
- Genesis on the table
- The Cornell Wordsworth and the Cornell Yeats
- Conclusion
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