{"title":"Review of London and the Making of Provincial Literature","authors":"C. Wigginton","doi":"10.14434/22976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/22976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447122,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124905502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masters and Commanders: Considering the Tyranny of the Edited Text","authors":"Josephine A. Koster","doi":"10.14434/TC.V9I2.22971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/TC.V9I2.22971","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the problematic nature of textual editing in the age of digitized and digital editions. Scholars consistently seek to identify “best” editions and to establish the identities of scribes like Adam Pynkhurst beyond a reasonable doubt, but experience shows how difficult such identifications can be, even when undertaken by qualified scholars with full access to the texts in question. Given the instability of technologies, the need for sustainability in digital platforms, and the difficulties in producing “final” print editions of medieval texts that exist in multiple witnesses, the essay argues that editorial closure may be an impossible goal.","PeriodicalId":447122,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131785796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of A Sentimental Education for the Working Man","authors":"Kevin Anzollin","doi":"10.14434/TC.V9I2.22978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/TC.V9I2.22978","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447122,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121522813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Few Figs from Thistles: Edna St. Vincent Millay—“Constant only to the Muse” and Not To Be Taken Lightly","authors":"Geffrey Davis","doi":"10.14434/TC.V9I1.2117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/TC.V9I1.2117","url":null,"abstract":"A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) has been received much differently than Edna St. Vincent Millay’s other poetic work. Scholars repeatedly describe this volume as “light verse,” an impression that, I argue, is misinformed. This mischaracterization of Millay’s Figs from Thistles is not only due to the literary and cultural challenges faced by women modernist writers of the 1920s, but also because of the volume’s difficult production history, including her original publisher’s poor business practices and the resulting interruption in her early poetic output. The material record—unpublished correspondence with close friends and poets Arthur Ficke and Witter (Hal) Bynner, as well as working manuscripts—shows that Millay was creating the poetry that we know as Figs from Thistle together with poems that span a larger portion of her oeuvre, including several poems that would appear in the Pulitzer-winning The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923), a volume typically read as the product of a markedly more “developed” or “mature” Millay. However, as I demonstrate in this article, Millay’s legacy cautions against critical approaches that rehearse unchecked readings, and her concerted efforts to “revise” Figs from Thistles and its reception further highlight the hazards of discourses largely informed by the conceptual attractiveness of poetic maturation.","PeriodicalId":447122,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128068149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Hamlet' After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text by Zacharyn Lesser (review)","authors":"Andrew Murphy, Heather N. Allen","doi":"10.14434/TC.V9I1.20120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/TC.V9I1.20120","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Lesser, Zachary, ‘Hamlet’ After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.","PeriodicalId":447122,"journal":{"name":"Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134307529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}