A blog devoted to raising awareness about the relevance of studying modern manuscripts and literary drafts to literary history and the history of the book.
8 December 2007
Winterson on Rowling Manuscript
Jeanette Winterson comments in The Times on the manuscript of J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard that is included in the Christmas sale of books and manuscripts at Sotheby's. The proceeds of the item, which is "treated like an illuminated manuscript", will go to charity.
Since completing my Masters at the University of Antwerp in 1991, I have been interested in "genetic criticism" and the study of modern literary manuscripts. Working at first primarily on the notebooks and composition history of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, I completed a PhD thesis on "Joyce's Sources: Intertextuality and Pretextuality in Finnegans Wake" at the University of Miami in 1997. Now I am a lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature at the Institute of English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London). I have published on various topics relating to James Joyce's notebooks, literary manuscripts and archival issues, including a special issue of Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship on Reading Notes (co-edited with Dirk Van Hulle). I have just completed ad edition of the manuscipt materials of W.B. Yeats's Where There Is Nothing and The Unicorn from the Stars for the Cornell Yeats Series. I teach courses on Modern Literary Manuscripts on Institute's MA in the History of the Book, the London Rare Books School, the London Palaeography Summer School and the T.S.Eliot International Summer School (which I co-direct). My next projects is an edition of Joseph Conrad's The Arrow of Gold (co-edited with Robert Hampson for Cambridge University Press) and a monograph on "The Archaeology of the Poem" about poetic manuscripts from Wordsworth to Ted Hughes. Further details about my activities and publications are on my staff profile and Academia.edu.
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