Romantic revisions
This collection of essays responds to the recent radical overhaul in the editing of Romantic texts. Leading American and British editors of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Keats and Clare explain and illustrate the implications of their editorial methods for the ongoing process of revision (in texts and their reception) which they have reflected and helped to produce. The volume offers insights into the urgent debate over editorial practices and their theoretical bases, while uncovering the complex revisionary processes of creativity at the heart of Romantic writing
Print Book, English, 1992
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1992
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521380744, 052138074X
24429583
1. Revision as making: the Prelude and its peers / Jonathan Wordsworth
2. Wordsworth's poems: the question of text / Stephen Gill
3. 'A Power to Virtue Friendly': the Pedlar's Guilt in Wordsworth's Ruined Cottage / Jonathan Barron and Kenneth R. Johnston
4. Revising the revolution: history and imagination in The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 / Nicholas Roe
5. Crossings out: the problem of textual passage in The Prelude / Keith Hanley
6. Reflections on having edited Coleridge's poems / J.C.C. Mays
7. Creative process and concealment in Coleridge's poetry / Norman Fruman
8. Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere journals: the patterns and pressures of composition / Pamela Woof
9. Byron and "The truth in masquerade" / Jerome McGann
10. Don Juan and the revisionary self / Peter J. Manning
11. Shelley's manuscripts and the web of circumstance / Donald H. Reiman
12. Spaces between words: writing Mont Blanc / Robert Brinkley
13. Correcting the irritability of his temper: the evolution of Leigh Hunt's Autobiography / Timothy Webb
14. Finding Mary Shelley in her letters / Betty T. Bennett
15. Keats's extempore effusions and the question of intentionality / Jack Stillinger
16. Keats's two Hyperions and the problem of Milton / Jonathan Bate
17. Revising Clare / John Lucas