Private: do (not) enter : personal writings and textual scholarship / edited by Joao Dionisio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

European Society for Textual Scholarship. International Conference 2008 : Lisbon)

Dionísio, João.

Series:

Variants ; 8.

Variants : the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, 1573-3084 ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism, Textual.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until recently, writings of a private nature have been neglected in literary and textual studies. There are two main reasons for this: the scarcity of pre-modern witnesses of this type of textual production and, in contrast, the over-abundance of material in contemporary writers’ archives. Although in more recent times there has been a marked shift towards the study of private and personal writings, important issues remain to be studied. In the light of genetic criticism and in the context of the broadening attention of textual scholarship to all matters relating to textual production, these texts have acquired a new status, but the legal, philological and historical questions they raise have not been systematically addressed. The new interest of textual scholarship in the processes of creation and dissemination of texts offers an opportunity to reflect more thoroughly on the nature of these documents: on the role they play as witnesses to specific literary or para-literary genres (e.g. letters, diaries), on their significance in circumstances of political repression, and as part of the textual genetic process. This collection of essays includes articles that deal, through heterogeneous approaches, with different aspects of Dutch, English, French, Lithuanian, Portuguese and Spanish written cultures.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Letters as Mediators between Private and Public Space / Marita Mathijsen

From the Private to the Public: Some Remarks on Bordalo Pinheiro’s Correspondence in Text and Images / Maria Virgílio Cambraia Lopes

Licensed to Sneak: Why We Should (Be Able to) Read Writers’ Secret Diaries and Letters, and Why Sometimes We Are Not / Bert Van Raemdonck

Written in Prison / Vanda Anastácio

Lithuanian Handwritten Books in the Period of the Ban on the Lithuanian Press (1864–1904) / Mikas Vaicekauskas

Particularly Public and Very Private / Paulius V. Subačius

It is True that They Wrote It / Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo

“Reconstructing Silences”: On the Study and Editing of Private Letters by Spanish Children Evacuated to Russia during the Spanish Civil War / Verónica Sierra Blas

Pessoa’s Notebooks: Windows to Crowded Streets / Jerónimo Pizarro

From Print to Script / Ivo Castro

Hæc Subtilis Ars Inveniendi: Considerations of João Penha’s Literary Archive / Elsa Pereira

The Genetic “I” in Émile Zola / Kelly Basílio

Angelo Colocci’s Crosses and a Text of Airas Carpancho / Rip Cohen

The Secret Life of Ballad Manuscripts / David Atkinson

Daniel Hobbins. Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning. / Geert Lernout

Ann Hollinshead Hurley and Chanita Goodblatt, editions. Women Editing/Editing Women: Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism. / Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Stephen Hebron. John Keats: A Poet and His Manuscripts. / Sally Bushell

Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland. Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print. / Dino Buzzetti

Richard Ovenden, Richard Kuhta and Neil Fraistat, editions. Shakespeare Quarto Archive. / John Vincler

John van Wyhe, edition The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. / Justin Tonra

Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Eds. Leo Jansen, Hans Luyten and Nienke Bakker. / Bert Van Raemdonck

Contributors / João Dionísio

Textual Cultures / João Dionísio.

Notes:

Revised and updated papers originally delivered at the Fifth International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Lisbon, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-39479-X

9786613572714

94-012-0754-2

OCLC:

797821433

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401207546 DOI