Research Catalog

Title

Proofs of genius : collected editions from the American revolution to the digital age / Amanda Gailey.

Author

Gailey, Amanda A.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

viii, 162 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Editorial theory and literary criticism

Uniform Title

Editorial theory and literary criticism.

Subject

• Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Appreciation
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Appreciation
• American literature > Appreciation > History > United States > 19th century
• American literature > Appreciation > History > United States > 20th century
• Literature publishing > United States > History > 19th century
• Literature publishing > United States > History > 20th century
• Editions > United States > History
• Editing > History
• Canon (Literature)
• Authorship > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 15-8050

ISBN

• 9780472072750
• 0472072757
• 9780472052752
• 0472052756
• 9780472121267 (canceled/invalid)
• 047212126X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015022310

OCLC

910413053

Author

Gailey, Amanda A., author.

Title

Proofs of genius : collected editions from the American revolution to the digital age / Amanda Gailey.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Editorial theory and literary criticism

Editorial theory and literary criticism.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8050