Essay Notes
(1) W. D. Thorn, a Past-President of the Society and a true bookman, deserves
our special thanks.back
(2) E.g. in March 1994 amongst members of the Internet electronic mail discussion
group, 'electronic scholarly editing' ('ese': the discussions are archived
at ese@ra.msstate.edu), of the Rossetti electronic archive of paintings
and poems being assembled by Jerome McGann and others at the Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, and available
in sample form on the World Wide Web:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rosetti/rosetti.html back
(3) The term's datedness is nicely indicated by the fact that the MLA committee
which preceded its Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA, est. 1966,
and succeeded by the Committee for Scholarly Editions in 1976) was called
the Committee on Definitive Editions. It was set up in 1947, but its attempts
to secure funding for editions of American works failed.back
(4) W.W. Greg, 'The Rationale of Copy-Text', Studies in Bibliography,
3 (1950), 19-36 repr. Bibliography and Textual Criticism, ed. O.M.
Brack and Warner Barnes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), pp.41-58.back
(5) W. Speed Hill, 'The Ironies of Paternity', Documentary Editing,
xvi (1994), 29-33 (p. 30), reviewing G. Thomas Tanselle, The Life and
Works of Fredson Bowers (Charlottesville:
The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993).back
(6) E.g. : 'Thus, by the middle of the 1970s, two editorial establishments
had developed in the United States, each focussing its attention on important
American figures, each drawing on traditions of textual criticism and modern
technology' (Kline, Guide, p. 8). back
(7) See Peter L. Shillingsburg, 'Polymorphic, Polysemic, Protean, Reliable,
Electronic Texts' in Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities,
ed George Bornstein and Ralph Williams
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 29-44.back
(8) I see this is crucial, although recent editorial theorists such as Jerome
McGann do not agree: see Eggert, 'Document and Text: The "Life"
of the Literary Work and the Capacities of Editing',
Text, vii (1995), 1-24.back
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