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Proofs of genius : collected editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age / Amanda Gailey
(Editorial theory and literary criticism)

Material Type E-Book
Publisher Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Year [2015]
Language English
Size 1 online resource

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URL E-Book 電子ブック(EBSCO: eBook Open Access Collection)
EB2203079
9780472121267

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Contents America collecting itself : national identity and intellectual property in the Early Republic
Dickinson's remains
Whitman's shrines
Cold War editing and the rise of the "American literature industry"
The death of the author has been greatly exaggerated
Notes "Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the author. In Proofs of Genius, Amanda Gailey argues that decisions to re-edit major authorial corpora are acts of canon-formation in miniature that indicate more foundational shifts in the way a culture views its literature and itself. By combining a theoretically-informed approach with a broad historical view of collected editions from the late eighteenth century to the present (including the rise of digital editions), Gailey fills a gap in the textual scholarship of the editing history of major figures like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and of the American literary canon itself"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index
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Authors *Gailey, Amanda A.,
Subjects LCSH:Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Appreciation  All Subject Search
LCSH:Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Appreciation  All Subject Search
FREE:Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
FREE:Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
LCSH:Electronic books
BSH:Electronic books
FREE:History
LCSH:American literature -- 19th century. -- United States -- Appreciation -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:American literature -- 20th century. -- United States -- Appreciation -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Literature publishing -- 19th century. -- United States -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Literature publishing -- 20th century. -- United States -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Editions -- United States -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Editing -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Canon (Literature)
LCSH:Authorship -- History  All Subject Search
FREE:Literary theory
FREE:Literature: history & criticism
BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory  All Subject Search
FREE:American literature -- Appreciation  All Subject Search
FREE:Art appreciation
FREE:Authorship
FREE:Canon (Literature)
FREE:Editing
FREE:Editions
FREE:Literature publishing
FREE:United States
FREE:1800-1999
Classification DC23:810.9
ID ED00004262
ISBN 9780472121267

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