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Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age English Dept., RMC, U of
Pegasus
in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray U Press of
Resisting Texts:
Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning U
1998
William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life
From
Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts
University Press, 2006
Scholarly editions
The
Works of W. M. Thackeray, General Editor.
(U
formerly published by Garland Publishers Inc.
Vanity Fair, 1989
Henry Esmond (ed.
by Edgar F. Harden), 1989
Pendennis, 1991
Flore et Zephyr, Yellowplush, and Major Gahagan,
1991
The Newcomes, 1996
Catherine (ed. by Sheldon Goldfarb, 1999)
Barry Lyndon (ed. by Edgar F. Harden, 1999)
The Book of Snobs and
Punch's Prize Novels (ed. by Edgar F. Harden,
2005)
English Humourists (ed.
E. Harden, 2008)
The Adventures of Philip (ed. Judith Law Fisher, 2009)
Other Books Edited
Voice, Text, and
Hypertext, co-edited with Riamonda Modiano and Leroy Searle (U
Washington P, 2003)
Thackeray Special Issue, Costerus
II (1974), 359 pp.
Poems by Howell H. Gwin, edited and
introduced, 1988
Norton Critical Edition of Vanity
Fair (WWNorton, 1994)
Anglo-American Textual Studies Reader, Co-Edited With Paul Eggert, and Kevin Caliendo
published as a special issue of Ecdotica, an Italian and Spanish journal of textual studies
(2010; dated 2009).
Articles
1972 ‑ "The First Edition
of Thackeray's Pendennis," PBSA,
66, pp. 35‑49.
1973 ‑ "Thackeray and the
Firm of Bradbury and Evans," Victorian Studies Assoc. Newsletter,
No. 11, pp. 11‑14.
‑ "Miss Horrocks Again
(on revisions in Vanity Fair)," Nineteenth Century Fiction,
28 (1973), 92‑95.
1974 ‑ "Thackeray Texts: A
Guide to Inexpensive Editions," Costerus,
II, pp. 287‑313.
‑ "Pendennis in
1975 ‑ "Thackeray's Pendennis: A Rejected Page of
Manuscript,"
‑ "Detecting Stereotype Plate Usage in Mid‑Nineteenth Century
Books," Editorial Quart., I, No. 2, pp. 2‑3.
‑ "Editing and the
‑ Addenda to Fisher: Joyce Cary," PBSA, 69, p. 409.
1977 ‑ "Critical Editing
and the Center for Scholarly Editions," Scholarly
Publishing, 9, pp. 31‑40.
‑ "A Note on Froude's
Anonymous Translation of Goethe," PBSA, 71, pp. 507‑12.
‑ "K. L. Goodwin's Ideal Edition of `Vanity
Fair'," Notes and Queries, 222, pp. 363‑65.
1978 ‑ "Problems in Editing
Thackeray," in Editing Nineteenth‑Century Fiction, ed. by
Jane Millgate (New
1979 ‑ "Register
Measurement as a Method of Detecting Hidden Printings," PBSA, 73,
pp. 484‑88.
1980 ‑ "Publishers'
Records and Analytical Bibliography: A Thackerayan
Example," The Book Collector, 29, pp.
343‑62.
‑ "Dickens and the Business of Authorship"
(review essay), Review, 2, pp. 287‑95.
‑ "The Computer as Research Assistant in Scholarly
Editing," Literary Research Newsletter, 5, pp. 31‑45.
‑ "Collating Machines and 19th Century Printed Books," Direction
Line, No. 10, pp. 4‑8.
1981 ‑ "The Printing,
Proof‑reading, and Publishing of Thackeray's Vanity Fair," Studies in Bibliography, 34, pp. 118‑45.
‑ "Final Touches and Patches in Vanity Fair: The First
Edition," Studies in the Novel, 13, pp. 40‑50.
‑ "Thackeray's Pendennis
Revised," Etudes Anglaises, 34, No. 4,
pp. 432‑442.
‑ "Editorial Problems are Readers' Problems," Browning
Institute Studies, 9, pp. 43‑57.
1982 ‑ "Key Issues in Editorial Theory,"
Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 6, pp. 3‑16.
1985 ‑ "Thackeray in
‑ "Pegasus in Harness: Thackeray as Man of Business," Studies
in Prose Literature, (Occasional Paper,
#5, RMC, Univ. of New South Wales, 1985), pp. 64‑71.
1987 ‑ "A Book that
Percolates" (a review essay), Review, 9, pp. 81‑8.
‑ "Thackeray and Punch: Bradbury and Evans and Smith,
Elder," Thackeray Newsletter, 26
(Nov.), 1-3.
1988 ‑ "Literary Theory
and 'The Text Itself,'" Critical Exchange (
‑ "Is There Anything to Get Straight," Critical Exchange
(
Pegasus in Harness, 1998)
1989 ‑ "An Inquiry into
the Social Status of Texts and Modes of Textual Criticism," Studies in Bibliography, 42, pp. 55‑79.
‑ "The Meanings of a Scholarly Edition," Bulletin of the
Bibliographical Society of
‑ "Notes on R. H. Miller's `The Place of the Received Text in
Editorial Theory," Analytical &
Enumerative Bibliography, ns3, pp. 96‑8.
1990 ‑ "The Three Moby‑Dicks,"
American Literary History, II, (Spring), pp.
119‑30.
‑ "Authorial Autonomy vs. Social Contract: The Case of Henry Esmond," Editing in
(Sydney: Univ. of New South Wales Press, 1990), 33‑47, and in Devils
and Angels: Editing
and Literary Theory
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991), pp. 22‑43.
1991 ‑ "Text as Matter, Concept, and
Action," Studies in Bibliography,
44, pp. 31‑82.
- "Textual Variants, Performance Variants, and the Concept of Work," Bulletin
of the Bibliographical Society
of
fur Editionswissenschaft, (1993), 221-234.
1993 - "Polymorphic, Polysemic, Protean, Reliable, Electronic Texts" Palimpsest:
Editorial Theory in the
Humanities, George Bornstein and Ralph Williams, eds. (U Michigan P,
1993), pp. 29-43.
1994 - "Textual Angst" LINQ
(an Australian publication), 21 (Oct.), pp 71-93.
1995 - "Thackeray Studies 1982-1992," Dickens Studies Annual, 23, pp.
303-336. Review of scholarship.
- "Editing Thackeray: A History," Studies in the Novel 27 (Fall), pp. 363-74.
1996 - "Research Guide to Scholarly
Editing: Nineteenth Century British Fiction," Scholarly
Editing: A
Research Guide (New York: Modern Language Association,
1996), 331-50.
- "Standards for Electronic Editions," in Literary
Texts in the Digital Age," ed. Richard J. Finneran.
(Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 1996), pp. 23-35.
- "Editions Half Perceived, Half Created," Studies in the Literary
Imagination 29 (Fall), pp. 75-88.
1998 - "The Faces of Victorian
Fiction" in The Iconic Page. ed. by George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle (Ann
Arbor: U
- "A Resistance to Contemporary German Editorial Theory and
Practice," Editio: International
Yearbook of
Scholarly Editing, 12, pp. 138-50.
1999 - "Negotiating Conflicting Aims in
Scholarly Editing," Problems of Editing, Christa Jansohn, ed. Special
issue, Editio (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999), pp. 1-8.
- "Editing Determinate Material Texts" TEXT, 12 (1999), 59-71.
2000 - Thackeray
Bibliography, New
- "Anglo-amerikanische Editionswissenschaft:
Ein knapper Überblick" (Anglo-American Scholarly Editing:
A Brief Overview) in Text und Edition: Positionen
und Perspektiven, ed. Rudiger
Nutt-Kofoth,
Bodo Plachta, H. T. M. van Vliet und Hermann Zwerschina.
143-63.
2001 - "Orientations to Texts" Editio: International Yearbook of Scholarly
Editing,
2002 - "Victorian Fiction Publishing"
Encyclopedia of Victorian Fiction
edited by
Womack.
2003 -
"Hagiolotry, Cultural Engineering,
in Voice Text Hypertext: Emerging Practices in
Textual Studies (
- "Antebellum American Literature
from
2004 - “Private
- "Introduction" Voice, Text,
and Hypertext (U of Washington Press) , pp.
vii-xiv.
- Thackeray biography, in New
Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford UP, 2004)
- "Authority and
Authorization in American Editing," Autor-Autorisation-Authentizität
ed. Thomas Bein,
Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth and Bodo Plachta. Special issue of editio (Tübingen:
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2004), pp. 73-81.
2005 - "Practical Editions of Literary
Texts" Variants 4, pp. 29-55.
2006 - “Verso Una Teoria Degli
Atti di Scrittura”
(Towards at Theory of Script Acts), Ecdotica
[translated by Domenico Fiormonte].
- “How Watching Vanity Fair Grow Affects Our
(publication of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature)
- “Publications of Coetzee’s
‘The Humanities in
- “On Being Textually Aware” Studies in American Naturalism
1 (Summer & Winter 2006) 170-95.
2007 - “Textual Criticism, the Humanities, and J. M.
Coetzee” English
Studies in
- “The
First Five English Editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species”
Variants 5, 2007.
2008 - “Reflections on editing and the web” Ecdotica pp. 191-95.
- “The dank cellar of electronic texts” Literary and Linguistic Computing 2008; doi: 10.1093/llc/fqn031
2009 - "Editing Lectures as Performance or Publication: Thackeray's The Four Georges", in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, Script & Print Special Issue, vol. 33, nos. 1-4, 2009 pp.161-175. Published by the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, November 2009.
-“How Literary Works Exist: Convenient Scholarly Editions,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3, 3 (Summer 2009), Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future ed. Maura Ives. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000054.html#
2010 - “1790-1900 Britain” for the Oxford Companion to the Book (Assoc. ed.).
- "The Printing, Proof-Reading, And Publishing Of Thackeray's Vanity Fair," Reprinted from Studies In Bibliography, 34, 1980, pp. 118-45 in The History of the Book in the West: 1800–1914. Edited by Stephen Colclough and Alexis Weedon. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
- “How Literary Works Exist: Implied, Represented, and Interpreted,” pp. 163-180, in Willard McCarty, ed., Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2010.
- "The impact of computers on the art of scholarly editing" In New Technologies In Medieval And Renaissance Studies Vol. 2, Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics, ed. Gabriel Egan http://acmrs.org/publications/mrts/news.html (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University)
-Jones, Steven E., Peter Shillingsburg, and George K. Thiruvathukal. “E-Carrel: An Environment for Collaborative Textual Scholarship.” Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 1, no. 2 (June 16, 2010).
2011 - "The Semiotics of Bibliography" Textual Cultures 6.1 pp. 11-25.
- "Scholarly Editing as a Cultural Enterprise" for Variants the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, 9, pp. 247-268.
Articles Accepted for Publication
-"Some Functions of Textual Criticism " Text Technology, the journal of computer text processing (Canada)
- "A Slight Conflict of Aims: Scholarly vs Academic Editing" for a collection of essays edited by Darcy Cullen. U Toronto Press
First Posted: December 2004
Updated: April 06; Nov. 07; Ap 2012