Editing Lives (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Redaktion: Swan, Jesse G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216355694
• Artikelnr.: 74846373

Autorenporträt

Jesse G. Swan is professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend Jerry Beasley
Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own
Matthew Brack List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Jesse G.
Swan Part I: Textual Studies 1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle
Loren Rothschild 2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century
Reprint Editions James E. May 3 Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures:
Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot
Walter H. Keithley 4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planché's
Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover Jennifer M. Santos Part II:
Biographical Studies 5 Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and
His Unwritten Biography Robert DeMaria, Jr. 6 Samuel Johnson's
Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment Gordon Turnbull 7 Searching
for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber Michael Bundock 8
Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career Leslie Chilton 9 Gender, State
Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II Martine W.
Brownley 10 Swift's Politics Reconsidered Thomas Kaminski 11 The Work of a
Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith's The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ
Christopher D. Johnson Part III: Edition 12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale
Piozzi: "une petite histoire" Translated and edited by Peter Sabor Coda,
"But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the
consolation of your company": The Career, with a Listing of Publications,
of O M Brack, Jr. Jesse G. Swan Bibliography About the Contributors Index