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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817426803321

Autore

Pizer Donald

Titolo

The editing of American literature, 1890-1930 [[electronic resource] ] : essays and reviews / / Donald Pizer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-58449-2

9786613896940

0-8108-8567-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Disciplina

801/.959

Soggetti

American literature - Criticism, Textual

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Editorial Note and Acknowledgments; I: General Essays; 1 On the Editing of Modern American Texts; 2 Self-Censorship and Textual Editing; II: Theodore Dreiser; 3 Dreiser's Novels; 4 Sister Carrie; 5 Jennie Gerhardt; 6 The Text of Sister Carrie; III: Stephen Crane; 7 The Works of Stephen Crane; 8 "The Red Badge of Courage Nobody Knows"; IV: The Text and Practical Criticism; 9 The Red Badge of Courage; 10 The "only words against POWER SUPERPOWER" Passage in John Dos Passos' The Big Money; 11 A Cold Case File Re-Opened; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930 collects Donald Pizer's essays and reviews that examine the issues associated with providing authoritative scholarly editions of major turn-of-the-century American authors. Divided into four sections-general essays on editing; essays and reviews on the editing of Theodore Dreiser; essays and reviews on the editing of Stephen Crane; and essays on the interplay of textual theory and critical interpretation in works by Crane and John Dos Passos-the volume expresses a distinctive position in t