Scholarly Edition Research Articles

Forschungsdaten und Edition: Herausforderungen und Chancen

Abstract Research data (RD) is the new catchword for humanist research with digital means. Defining, what exactly is meant by RD, is still on the task list. Especially in scholarly editions thought has to be put into the boon and bane of the new notion if the field wants to progress, as it has always done, with new media possibilities.

Besser spät als nie

Abstract After sixty years, the work on the Hamburg Klopstock edition is nearing completion. That is reason enough to recall the planned and unplanned, the institutional, material, financial and personal conditions under which this complete edition has become what currently distinguishes it from comparable German-language editions of poets. The conceptual and methodical characteristics are described that allow the Hamburg Klopstock edition to be classified in terms of the history of scholarly editing: the strong author-centrism in the volumes of the Works section of the edition; the explanations as a focus in the reader-friendly volumes of the correspondence as well as the methodical innovations in the Addenda section in the form of the genetic prose text representation (Addenda II) and the bibliographical description of the prints of Klopstock’s works based on the model of the Anglo-American analytical bibliography (Addenda III). The typographic design is another characteristic of this edition.

‘Citizen Science’ aus editionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive – Voraussetzungen, Chancen und Risiken

Abstract Citizen science, understood as research that includes both specialists and interested laypeople in its work, has, in recent years, become a key concept in debates about the future of scholarly practice. The essay attempts to transfer this approach to the requirements and processes of scholarly editing, especially under the heading of professionalism. It not only analyses the strategies of projects that have succeeded in editing larger amounts of text using crowdsourcing methods, but also explores where the involvement of volunteers or the outsourcing of editorial activities reaches its limit.

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021

Introduction to the 30th Anniversary Issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

Introduction to the 30th Anniversary Issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology John Z. Sadler (bio) This issue marks the 30th anniversary of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (PPP). All of us at the journal are grateful to our authors, readers, editors, and publishers for enabling this landmark. To commemorate this event, I invited our Founding Editor and Chair of the Advisory Board, K.W.M. "Bill" Fulford to write a brief essay, along with our panel of smart and industrious senior editors. Their instructions were simple: 500 words on PPP past, present, and/or future. These essays appear in the pages to follow. As Editor-in-Chief, I write about PPP's early commitments as a scholarly journal, situate these in the history of academic publishing, and muse over our current moment. Bill Fulford briefly discusses the early years of the journal in his essay. My perspective emerges from an editor's perspective. As co-editors in the early years, Bill and I were committed to an international authorship with comparable editorial oversight. We wanted to build a journal that would equally recognize clinical science and practice and philosophy, maintaining the rigor of each field. We saw philosophers and mental health practitioners as equal partners, collaborators, innovators, and educators. More important, PPP was intended to offer up the best criticism of the mental health and related fields. The scattershot history of scholarly editing has identified several functions of the editor over the centuries following Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid-1440s. The earliest editors took liberties with the language of the Bible, trying to make it more accessible to the public; the printing press permitted fast and inexpensive reproduction. Not surprisingly, this popularizing of the Bible led to praise as well as outrage. The printing of other scholarly works followed quickly. In 1470, only about 25 years after the invention of the printing press, Niccolo Perroni called for Pope Paul II to censor Andrea Bussi's edition of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, an anthology of then-ancient writings about the natural world. This marked the first recorded instance of censorship of a more-or-less secular scholarly work (Monfasani, 1988). In the ensuing centuries, "editors" initially were the popularizers, and later the gatekeepers of texts worth (and not worth) reading. In the [End Page 1] ensuing centuries into the present, editors have been venerated both as defenders of good reading and reviled as censors or intellectual selfaggrandizers. The current moment, in my view, represents a crisis in the history of editing and editorship. Digital communications have liberated communications worldwide. However, this liberty has come at the cost of colossal amounts of material not worth reading and an explosion of divisive, destructive discourse. Even worse, internet "trolls" on social media have moved bullying out of the schoolyard and into international cyberspace. Determining what is worth reading has moved away from a cluster of (hopefully) responsible editors to anyone who wants to go to the small effort of silencing others through online harassment and even violent threats. Such cyberbullying does not eliminate elitism, but instead substitutes a toxic online "elite" without principle other than self-promotion and the alienation of others. Our contemporary online culture has yet to figure out how to shape what is, and is not, worth reading. My wish and intent for the future of PPP is to maintain and grow our place of rational, deliberative, and open discourse, even in the face of such disruptive cultural change. John Z. Sadler John Z. Sadler, MD, is the Editor-in-Chief of PPP. He is the Daniel W. Foster, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, as well as a Professor of Psychiatry there. He has been a PPP editor since its inception. Reference Monfasani, J. (1988). The first call for press censorship: Niccolo Perotti, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Antonio Moreto, and the editing of Pliny's Natural History. Renaissance Quarterly, 41, 1–31. Google Scholar Copyright © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press

Contributors to this Issue

Other| March 01 2023 Contributors to this Issue Nineteenth-Century Literature (2023) 77 (4): 268–269. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.77.4.268 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Contributors to this Issue. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 March 2023; 77 (4): 268–269. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.77.4.268 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search Gerard Lee McKeever is Lecturer in Scottish Literature in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831 (2020), winner of the BARS First Book Prize 2021. He is currently finishing a monograph titled Regional Romanticism: Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830 for Palgrave Macmillan, as well as editing John Galt’s autobiographies for Angela Esterhammer’s “Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt” series. Claudia Stokes is Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910 (2006); The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion (2014); and Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature (2022). She is currently preparing a scholarly edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s religious writings for Oxford University Press. * * *... You do not currently have access to this content.

Current status and demand for educational activities on publication ethics by academic organizations in Korea: a descriptive study

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the following overarching issues: the current status of research and publication ethics training conducted in Korean academic organizations and what needs to be done to reinforce research and publication ethics training.Methods: A survey with 12 items was examined in a pilot survey, followed by a main survey that was distributed to 2,487 academic organizations. A second survey, which contained six additional questions, was dispatched to the same subjects. The results of each survey were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis, content analysis, and comparative analysis.Results: More than half of the academic organizations provided research and publication ethics training programs, with humanities and social sciences organizations giving more training than the others (χ<sup>2</sup>=11.190, df=2, P=0.004). The results showed that research and publication ethics training was held mostly once and less than an hour per year, mainly in a lecture format. No significant difference was found in the training content among academic fields. The academic organizations preferred case-based discussion training methods and wanted expert instructors who could give tailored training with examples.Conclusion: A systematic training program that can develop ethics instructors tailored to specific academic fields and financial support from academic organizations can help scholarly editors resolve the apparent gap between the real and the ideal in ethics training, and ultimately to achieve the competency needed to train their own experts.

What is Scholarly Editing?


 Scholarly Editing is distinguished here from all other editing by declaring the two rules that scholarly editing requires: to know and make known all relevant facts and to exercise informed judgment while following explicit principles for and details of the editorial work.

Little Women at 150 ed. by Daniel Shealy (review)

Reviewed by: Little Women at 150 ed. by Daniel Shealy Laureen Tedesco (bio) Little Women at 150, edited by Daniel Shealy. UP of Mississippi, 2022. (Series: Children's Literature Association Series) Little Women at 150 is a delightful exploration of the enduring legacy of Louisa May Alcott's best-known work, offering more of the biographically grounded, textually attentive scholarship that has brought Alcott's work into university classrooms, scholarly editions, and interdisciplinary journals. This collection of eight essays and a meticulously researched introduction commemorates Little Women's sesquicentennial in 2018: "Little Women at 150, while championing Alcott's success, helps to reveal the layered complexity and significance of one of the United States' most well-known novels" (Shealy 16). The collection features eight new essays by ground-breaking Alcott scholars who, in addition to analyzing Alcott's life and works in critical articles and books, have produced critical editions, written biographies, edited the author's letters and journals, collected her anonymous and pseudonymous "thrillers," and republished contemporary reviews and reminiscences: "Utilizing various critical approaches, the essays are not focused on a particular topic or theme. Instead, they are richly eclectic, revealing the complexity and sophistication of Alcott's most famous work" (11). The essay collection begins and ends with reflections on Alcott's literary achievements: editor Daniel Shealy's carefully constructed case for Little Women's enduring significance and Gregory Eiselein's well-reasoned closing essay asserting Alcott's merits as a major author worthy of an ongoing place in literary canons, single-author courses at universities, and continuing recognition and study as a writer whose entire body of work offers much to admire. Shealy's introduction charts in compelling detail the immediate and long-term success of the novel Alcott so reluctantly started. Shealy draws on his own and other contributors' decades of work with primary sources to chronicle the book's publication history, early reviews, and eventual status as "classic" by the early twentieth century (8). Shealy identifies what Beverly Lyon Clark has called "[t]he afterlife of Little Women" "as its story became a part of the culture of the United States and new generations discovered their own version of the March sisters" through Broadway, musical, film, and TV adaptations of the book (9). Shealy frames the story of the novel's remarkable fan base—including cultural icons "Carson McCullers, Gloria Steinem, Theodore Roosevelt, Patti Smith, and J.K. Rowling" [End Page 205] (8)—with the author's own astonishment at its success. "Not only," he observes, "did she seem to view 'juvenile' fiction as inferior, but she also initially resisted writing the novel that continues to endure after 150 years since its initial publication" (5). He also traces the growth in scholarly approaches to the novel as serious literature, beginning with feminist approaches in the mid-twentieth century, to demonstrate that Alcott scholarship now represents a strong, multidisciplinary body of academic inquiry, textual editing, critical evaluations, biographical investigation, and pedagogical approaches, with a range of theoretical underpinnings. In the book's closing essay, Eiselein adds further detail to Shealy's already impressive introductory survey of Alcott studies, highlighting the groundbreaking work that feminist scholars did in the 1980s and 1990s to justify admission of Little Women into "paracanons" of beloved texts (182). Subsequent decades of feminist and other theoretically informed work—much of it by contributors to this volume—gave Alcott's reputation the heft it now enjoys. Eiselein measures Alcott's reputation, scholarly treatment, enduring reputation and influence on literature history, canonicity, and "sizable and varied body of writing," as well as literary judgments regarding her works' artistic excellence and aesthetic importance (184). Eiselein concludes, Alcott's work matters. And it is a testimony to her ambitious imagination, her creative energy, and her talent that her work continues to resonate with and shed light on our contemporary situation. Teaching Little Women as a significant literary masterpiece and teaching Alcott herself as a major author in the classroom but also treating her as a major author in our critical work, both academically and broadly public, make that point clearly and powerfully. (200) While the essays' critical approaches, topics, and themes vary, they reveal intriguing intersections...

«Восстановленная» версия романа «Двадцать тысяч лье под водой»

In 2022, the university press Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France) published the first scholarly edition of one of the most prominent works by Jules Verne — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. The publisher, ex-professor at the University of Hong Kong, and author of Jules Verne’s English-language biography (2006), as well as numerous works about the writer, William Butcher, describes this edition as the novel’s “restored revision” (texte restaure). This book is the result of many years of research into restoring Jules Verne’s works in their original form, untouched by extensive editorial revisions. It is commonly known that all works in The Extraordinary Voyages collection underwent various amendments and adjustments by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel and later on, by Jules Verne’s son Louis-Jules. W. Butcher previously published English translations and the original versions of certain Jules Verne’s works, including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Around the World in Eighty Days and others. The pocket size of these editions, however, would not allow to carry out the ambitious editorial project. This review focuses on the core strategies of the Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas’s edition, which W. Butcher refers to as dehetzelisation. The edition also includes a comprehensive scholarly apparatus (an introductory article, rationale, name index, biographical background, detailed chronology of novel writing, annotated bibliography, etc.).

Вопросы комментирования ранних рассказов И.А. Бунина 1887–1902 гг.

The paper examines the principles and methods of commenting Ivan Bunin’s early fiction prose. It is pointed out that research into the type and level of completeness of scholarly commentaries on works of classics of Russian literature has been conducted for almost a century. The structure of the commentary in academic collections of Russian writers’ works is presented. The article offers a methodology of writing a commentary on the early literary prose of Ivan Bunin, while exploring the problems and questions that arise in the commentaries on the writer’s prose written for the future academic Complete Works and Letters by Ivan Bunin, the work on which has already begun. The principles of writing each section of the commentary for this scholarly edition of Bunin’s literary heritage are outlined: textual, historical-literary, and realhistorical ones. The latter section is presented in a more detailed structure of seven paragraphs. For each item, the paper provides several examples of commentary on specific realities from Bunin’s early stories. A separate section is devoted to linguistic commentary, for which several examples of commentary on particular regional words and folk expressions are also given. Thus, the commentary on Bunin’s prose should be comprehensive, combining with the greatest possible completeness all the necessary information about each work.

An Epistle of Noble Poetrye: A Middle English Translation of Christine de Pizan’s L’Epistre d’Othéa, edited from London, British Library MS Harley 838, ed. Richard J. Moll, Anne Schuurman, and Emily Pez Middle English Texts 65. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER, 2022, xlv, 173 pp.

The Epistre Othéa/Letter of Othéa (ca. 1400) was Christine de Pizan’s most popular work, with forty-nine manuscripts surviving in French (ed. Parussa, op. cit below, 29 n. 53), in three distinct manuscript families (xxvi), and four early print editions, one of them in English. Beginning with the manuscripts supervised by the author herself, the treatise was continually adapted to address a changing array of “implied readers,” from a specific royal dedicatee, to the knightly class, to every Christian. The first scholarly edition of the French Othéa was published in 1999: Danielle Parussa, ed., Epistre Othea (Geneva: Librairie Droz), a milestone in the late-twentieth-century revival of Christine studies.

«Художественные фуги» и «боевые рапсодии» 22-летней переписки (к выходу в свет переписки В. В. Розанова и П. П. Перцова)

This article is about the two-volume scholarly edition of the complete correspondence (499 letters) between Vasily V. Rozanov, a popular if controversial essayist and philosopher, and Pyotr P. Pertsov, a compiler, editor, and publisher of Rozanov’s four early books, which paved the road to Rozanov’s fame. The edition was prepared by Yelena I. Goncharova and Olga L. Fetisenko of the Institute of Russian Literature (St. Petersburg) and published by the Pushkin House Publishers in the series Russian Conversations in 2023. This publication of Rozanov’s largest correspondence is an important contribution to the research of his epistolary heritage and of the entire Russian culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pertsov was not a famous person but a widely educated and independent critic, journalist, publisher, and thinker, who had his own opinion on all contemporary issues. His letters provide a “counterpoint” addition and often a friendly critical “correction” to the ideas of Rozanov, whose letters demonstrate all the brilliance of his boundless imagination and his daring, sometimes even shocking literary passages. The letters cover all the major phases of the creative paths of the two correspondents. This article also sheds light on various aspects of the literary life and ideological issues associated with the two Russian revolutions and demonstrates how these two political events affected the views of the corresponding writers. Although parts of these numerous letters have already appeared in different publications, this work is the first complete and thoroughly annotated edition that presents the epistolary legacies of Rozanov and Pertsov both within the context of the correspondents’ entire creative work and of the literary and philosophical thought of the Russian Silver Age.

Announcement: The Marilyn Gaull Book Award

Previous articleNext article FreeAnnouncement: The Marilyn Gaull Book AwardPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreIn 2021, the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association inaugurated the Marilyn Gaull Book Award, which is conferred annually in recognition of the most outstanding monograph, biography, or scholarly edition reviewed during the previous year in The Wordsworth Circle, which Marilyn Gaull founded in 1970 and edited through 2019. The prize is awarded to the book that best represents the spirit of wide-ranging inquiry, critical acumen, and enduring influence on the field that Marilyn Gaull always championed. To be eligible for consideration, books must be submitted for review by The Wordsworth Circle, where reviews appear in the fourth issue (Fall) of every volume year. Although there is no formal deadline for receipt of materials, authors are urged to submit their work no later than January 31. Submissions are welcome in all areas of British, European, and North American Romantic studies. The awardee will receive a $2,000 prize and will be recognized at the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association lunch at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is pleased to announce the second recipient of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award (2022): Jeffrey N. Cox, for William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo (Cambridge University Press, 2021), reviewed by Kenneth Johnston in The Wordsworth Circle 53.4 (2022): 505–10. The review committee commended Cox’s award-winning study in the following terms:From its cheeky title to its ringing conclusion, William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic by Jeffrey Cox offers a provocative, field-altering assessment of Wordsworth after Waterloo, throwing into relief the networks and relationships hiding in plain sight between Wordsworth and his younger contemporaries. Written with a wry, perceptive sympathy and drawing on Cox’s unparalleled knowledge of early-nineteenth-century publishing circles, this is a timely and, at times, moving book about the challenges of aging, the dynamics of inter-generational tension, and the role of the artist in society. Cox’s book skillfully balances finely detailed close reading with the broader sweep of Romantic print culture and European politics, creating a compelling narrative of Wordsworth as an engaged, sometimes combative, reader of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and others. The poet who emerges from this study is in some sense a second “early” Wordsworth, deeply embroiled in the worlds of publishing and politics after Napoleon’s defeat. Beautifully written, brilliantly conceived, and meticulously researched, this volume makes the most persuasive case to date for the importance of the “later” Wordsworth to the study of British Romanticism. Marilyn Gaull would have loved this book. The committee takes great pleasure in awarding the 2022 Marilyn Gaull Award to Jeffrey Cox for William Wordsworth: Second-Generation Romantic.The Wordsworth Circle joins the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association in congratulating Jeffrey Cox on his vital, timely, and award-winning contribution to Romantic studies.To be considered for the Marilyn Gaull Book Award, publications should be sent for review to the Associate Editor, Jacob Risinger:Ohio State UniversityDenney Hall 421164 Annie and John Glenn AvenueColumbus, OH 43210Please address any questions to the editor, Charles Mahoney, at [email protected].Previous recipients of the Marilyn Gaull Award:2021: Andrew Stauffer, Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Wordsworth Circle Volume 54, Number 1Winter 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725473 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

У истоков создания музея А. А. Блока в Петрограде—Ленинграде

The article reconstructs the history of an unrealized project to establish an apartment museum in memory of Alexander Blok in Petrograd immediately after the poet’s death in 1921. Other attempts to establish this museum, one in conjunction with Blok’s 60th anniversary in 1940 and another in 1941, also were unsuccessful. In 1940, the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkinskii Dom) established the “Commission for the study of A. Blok’s creative work.” Aside from preparing collections of academic articles about Blok and scholarly editions of his writings and of his correspondence, the Commission planned to participate in the organization of the Blok Museum in the author’s last apartment. The museum was to be opened in the autumn of 1941. This article also explores the biography of Georgii P. Blok (1888—1962), Alexander Blok’s cousin, who was an Afanasy Fet scholar and a prose writer, translator, and publisher himself. His letter to Boris M. Eichenbaum, in which G. P. Blok justifies his right to take the position of the curator of the museum not only because he was a relative of Alexander Blok but also because he was a Blok scholar, is published in an appendix to the article.

Discussion: An Advertisement for the publication of Abridgements of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings, 1672-1689, ed. J.R. Milton

As many readers of Locke Studies are aware, the long-awaited publication of a scholarly edition of Locke’s published Abrégé and the transcription of an English “Epitome” of An Essay concerning Human Understanding (Essay) should be published in the near future. Both of these documents are tantalizing for aiding in the interpretation of the Essay because they are the author’s own efforts to clarify the argument and design of his great work prior to publication. This short note briefly summarizes the evidence for the superiority of the “Epitome” over the Abrégé and suggests several ways in which a clearer understanding of these documents could contribute to a more accurate reading of the Essay.

Editors' Introduction

In this introduction, the editors continue their reflections on scholarly editing in the pandemic, welcome two new co-editors, and announce a grant-funded initiative that builds on Lateral Forums. This issue features three regular articles and the first installment of a special section, Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry, which builds on the 'Cripistemologies of Crisis' special section, edited by Theodora Danylevich and Aly Patsavas, last year.

Rumbold,Valerie. Swift in Print: Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691– 1765

Rumbold,Valerie. <i>Swift in Print: Published Texts in Dublin and London, 1691– 1765</i>

The Age of Johnson, ed. Jack Lynch and J. T. Scanlan

<i>The Age of Johnson</i>, ed. Jack Lynch and J. T. Scanlan

A Scholarly Edition of Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric

Beth Hewett’s Scholarly Edition of Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric provides an authoritative version of this underappreciated landmark in American rhetoric and writing instruction. The volume includes a foreword by a descendant of Newman’s, an eighty-four-page introduction, a thoroughly annotated text (that of the seventh edition [1839]), which Hewett contends is “settled” (71), a series of appendices featuring significant selections from earlier editions, an extensive bibliography, and an index. Hewett’s notes, among other helps, trace textual differences in the many editions Newman published during his lifetime and locate the sources of many—although not all—of the quoted passages unidentified by the author.Hewett’s enthusiasm for Newman’s work is quickly palpable. Although she acknowledges at the outset that, because of his devotion to eighteenth-century belletrism and his perceived exclusionary tendencies, “[Newman] has been disdained within most histories of rhetoric as more harmful to the discipline than facilitative of it” (2), her introduction and textual apparatus provide a rich sense of the book’s rhetorical and cultural context in the process of constructing a credible case for its enduring significance as “the first substantively original U.S. rhetoric” (61). In fact, her treatment constitutes an homage to the text and is clearly a labor of love.Aligned with Jeffrey Walker’s emphasis on rhetoric’s “pedagogical enterprise” (2011, 3), Hewett’s case for Newman’s importance builds on the contention that “it may be more in the daily practice of teaching that rhetoric scholars develop their most original and creative contributions to the field” (2–3). Following this trajectory, Hewitt ably demonstrates the special status of the Practice System as a teacherly bridge between eighteenth-century British rhetoric (characterized by Hugh Blair’s belletrism and George Campbell’s philosophical inquiry), on the one side, and nineteenth-century American composition pedagogy, on the other. She characterizes Newman’s “most original contribution to American rhetorical study” as “inflecting Belletrism with American models” (59) and carefully explains how Newman adapts concepts essential to the rhetorical scholarship of the Scottish Enlightenment such as taste, imagination, the sublime, and the beautiful for a distinctly nineteenth-century American pedagogy. Furthermore, she suggests connections between Newman’s pedagogy and contemporary writing studies such as his explication of the clumsy quotation practice now known as patch writing. And, although she explicates the considerable contributions of A Practical System of Rhetoric, she is not unaware of its limitations, as demonstrated by her discussion of Newman’s minimal coverage of rhetorical invention and reasoning, a deficit characteristic of nineteenth-century writing pedagogy.I find Hewett’s editorial work solid, her case for Newman’s enduring relevance to rhetorical study sound, and her textual glosses engaging. I do note that her account of A Practical System of Rhetoric’s nineteenth-century American context is stronger than her treatment of its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British roots. Likewise, her bibliography of American rhetoric appears to be more up-to-date than its British counterpart (which is missing a number of important recent studies), and she exhibits an overreliance on older secondary sources for eighteenth-century texts. Nonetheless, I heartily recommend this edition for students of nineteenth-century American rhetoric and—more generally—compositionists with an interest in our complex, contentious, endlessly captivating family tree.