Part 1.Text

1.1TEMPORAL COMPARISON

1.1.1Medieval holograph manuscripts: Absence and ubiquity23

Daniel Wakelin

1.1.2Early modern holograph manuscripts: English literary manuscripts, 1450–170035

H. R. Woudhuysen

1.1.3The eighteenth century: The progressive emergence of eighteenth-century European literary manuscripts47

Nathalie Ferrand

1.1.4The nineteenth century: Textual studies in an age of abundance60

Seamus Perry

1.1.5The twentieth century: Nib, type, word75

Bryony Randall

1.1.6The twenty-first century: From paper notebooks to keystroke logging87

Lamyk Bekius

Dirk Van Hulle

1.2SPATIAL COMPARISON

1.2.1Nordic traditions: The study of modern Finnish and Scandinavian manuscripts100

Sakari Katajamäki

1.2.2Russian traditions: Textology, Pushkin studies and the digital future112

Igor Pilshchikov

1.2.3Eastern European traditions: Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian literary drafts127

Mateusz Antoniuk

Jiří Flaišman

Michal Kosák

Ágnes Major

Martin Navrátil

Dmytro Yesypenko

1.2.4Anglophone traditions: Dealing with drafts of modern literary manuscripts141

Paul Eggert

1.2.5German traditions: Between author-centricity and dynamic texts160

Katrin Henzel

1.2.6French traditions: Confronting the traces of creation174

Franz Johansson

1.2.7Italian traditions: From Humanism to authorial philology187

Paola Italia

1.2.8Drafts on the Iberian Peninsula202

João Dionísio

1.2.9Postcolonial traditions: Toward comparative genetic criticism through a Caribbean lens214

Rachel Douglas

1.3PROCESSUAL COMPARISON

1.3.1Writer’s block229

Diane Purkiss

1.3.2Revision: Rereading, reliving, rewriting241

Hannah Sullivan

1.3.3Translation archives: Ontologies of the translation draft over time253

Anthony Cordingley

1.4GENERIC COMPARISON

1.4.1Poetry: The form and culture of poetic creation in English poetry manuscripts, 1600–2000269

Wim Van Mierlo

1.4.2Drama: How the page becomes a stage288

Edith Cassiers

1.4.3Prose: Extended and distributed creativity in prose fiction305

Olga Beloborodova

1.4.4Kleine Prosa: The poetics of the draft in prose sketches, prose poems, flash fiction and related small forms320

Dirk Göttsche

1.5EDITORIAL COMPARISON

1.5.1Textual fluidity: Biography, history, and adaptive revision335

John Bryant

1.5.2Pruning: Editorial intervention and its effects353

Tim Groenland

1.5.3Orthography. <hie>rogueglyphics: Spelling between manuscript and print365

Kathryn Sutherland

1.5.4Punctuation: Dorothy Richardson, the long modernist novel, and the literary draft378

Scott McCracken

Part 2.Beyond text

2.1MATERIAL COMPARISON

2.1.1Paper393

Andrew Honey

2.1.2Born-digital documents410

Isabelle Van Ongeval

2.1.3Archiving practices: The preservation and loss of autograph English literary manuscripts417

Christopher Fletcher

2.2CONCEPTUAL COMPARISON

2.2.1Metaphors for the writing process434

Dirk Van Hulle

2.2.2Models for genetic criticism450

Daniel Ferrer

2.3INTERMEDIAL COMPARISON

2.3.1Film: Authorship, versions and revisions458

Tom Paulus

2.3.2Television: From pre-production to programme-making and dissemination473

Jonathan Bignell

2.3.3Architecture: The culture of building487

Eireen Schreurs

Lara Schrijver

2.3.4Music: Sketching performance496

John Rink

2.3.5Radio: Between text and sound514

Pim Verhulst

Epilogue527

Hans Walter Gabler

Notes on contributors

Index

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