EGGERT, Paul. 2019. The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History.

Christine Froula

doi:10.14434/textual.v13i1.30080

Abstract

EGGERT, Paul. 2019. The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History.

Highlights

Common ground between scholarly editing and the “relatively unregulated life of literary criticism and theory” (Earhart 2012, 25, quoting Leroy Searle)
The digital medium especially invites the building of bridges between bibliography, book history, textual editing, and literary studies; unlimited cyberpages permit ongoing collocation of scholarship, criticism, and interpretation produced by any and all methods and approaches
Such a “work-oriented book history” or “book-historically oriented literary studies”, Eggert urges, is the most obvious way forward if we are to unlock the history of meanings, including, importantly, our own

Summary

Introduction

Common ground between scholarly editing and the “relatively unregulated life of literary criticism and theory” (Earhart 2012, 25, quoting Leroy Searle). The digital medium especially invites the building of bridges between bibliography, book history, textual editing, and literary studies; unlimited cyberpages permit ongoing collocation of scholarship, criticism, and interpretation produced by any and all methods and approaches.

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