Title Proofs of genius : collected editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age / Amanda Gailey

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Editorial theory and literary criticism Editorial theory and literary criticism. Contents America collecting itself : national identity and intellectual property in the Early Republic -- Dickinson's remains -- Whitman's shrines -- Cold War editing and the rise of the "American literature industry" -- The death of the author has been greatly exaggerated Summary "Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the author. In Proofs of Genius, Amanda Gailey argues that decisions to re-edit major authorial corpora are acts of canon-formation in miniature that indicate more foundational shifts in the way a culture views its literature and itself. By combining a theoretically-informed approach with a broad historical view of collected editions from the late eighteenth century to the present (including the rise of digital editions), Gailey fills a gap in the textual scholarship of the editing history of major figures like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and of the American literary canon itself"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index Notes This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported License Print version record Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Appreciation Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Appreciation SUBJECT Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Appreciation Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Appreciation Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 fast Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast Subject American literature -- Appreciation -- United States -- History -- 19th century American literature -- Appreciation -- United States -- History -- 20th century Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century Editions -- United States -- History Editing -- History Canon (Literature) Authorship -- History Literary theory. Literature: history & criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. American literature -- Appreciation Art appreciation Authorship Canon (Literature) Editing Editions Literature publishing United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020707328 ISBN 9780472121267 047212126X 9780472900091 0472900099

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