• Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City

    Author(s):
    Martin Paul Eve (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
    Subject(s):
    Fiction, Twenty-first century, Archives--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Contemporary fiction, Archival studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/fgsc-kw17
    Abstract:
    Despite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies through the comparison of geographically diverse publications of texts serving as documentary co-archives of emergence. To make this case I document the two very different versions of Jennifer Egan’s first-published collection of fiction, Emerald City (1993 and 1996), charting the interpretational consequences of her editorial processes within that early work.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1080/10436928.2020.1709713
    Publisher:
    Informa UK Limited
    Pub. Date:
    2020-1-26
    Journal:
    Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory
    Volume:
    31
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    25 - 41
    ISSN:
    1043-6928,1545-5866
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
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