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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Both an intellectual autobiography and a chronicle of the
ideological and methodological upheaval in textual studies during
the last two decades, this book presents provocative essays by one
of the foremost textual scholars of our day. As founder and
executive director of the interdisciplinary Society for Textual
Scholarship, Professor Greetham has had the opportunity to observe
and engage with the main players of the textual revolution during
its most turbulent years and enlivens his account with revealing
character sketches.
Through the concept of contamination, David Greetham highlights
various ways that one text may invade another, carrying with it a
residue of potential meaning. While the focus of this study is on
written works, the scope ranges widely over music, politics, art,
science, philosophy, religion, and social studies. Greetham argues
that this sort of contamination is not only ubiquitous in
contemporary culture, but may also be a necessary and beneficial
circumstance. Tracing contamination from the Middle Ages onward, he
takes up issues such as the placement of quote marks in Keats's
"Ode to a Grecian Urn," the controversy over the use of evidence
for "yellowcake" uranium in Niger, and the reconstitution of
reality on YouTube, to illustrate that the basic questions of
evidence, fact, and voice have always been slippery concepts.
Publishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays
honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the University of
Delaware in 1992. The essays, written by friends, students, and
collaborators, reflect the scholarly interests that defined
Reiman's long career. Mirroring the focus of Reiman's work during
his years at Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in New York and as lead
editor of Shelley and his Circle, 1773-1822 (Harvard University
Press), the essays in this collection explore authors such as Mary
Shelley, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley;
moreover, they confirm the continuing influence of Reiman's
writings in the fields of editing and British Romanticism. Ranging
from topics such as Byron's relationship with his publisher John
Murray and the reading practices in the Shelley circle to Rudyard
Kipling's response to Shelley's politics, these essays draw on a
dazzling variety of published and manuscript sources while engaging
directly with many of Reiman's most influential theories and
arguments.
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