Seamus Perry

List of John Benjamins publications in which Seamus Perry is involved.

Article

Perry, Seamus 2024 1.1.4. The nineteenth century: Textual studies in an age of abundance A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe, Beloborodova, Olga and Dirk Van Hulle (eds.), pp. 60–74 | Sub-chapter

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… read more