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Drawing together twelve essays on British Romantic authors and the theories underlying their modern editorial treatments, this book traces the continuing influence of Reiman's scholarly approaches in four key areas of study: print culture, editorial theory, the Shelley circle, and transmission/reception of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings.
List of contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Michael Edson
Remembering Don Reiman: The Pforzheimer Years
Doucet Devin Fischer
Part 1: Publishing and Print Culture
1 Byron's House of Murray
Hermione de Almeida
2 Hazlitt and Byron: With a New Look at The Liberal
Charles E. Robinson
3 Mocking Monuments: The Regent's Bomb, Satire, and Authority
Steven E. Jones
Part 2: New Perspectives on the Shelleys
4 A Defence of Poetry and Adonais: Configurations
Stuart Curran
5 Bound by Such a Chain: Shelley and Rhyme
Michael O'Neill
6 Reading Aloud in the Shelley Circle
Timothy Webb
Part 3: Romantic Bards and Modern Editors
7 Indeterminacy and Method: Editing Byron's Accidentals
Alice Levine
8 Getting Beyond "Mere Chatter about Shelley"
David Greetham
9 "Editing Shelley" Again
Neil Fraistat
Part 4: Shelley's Afterlives
10 Lady Shelley Trims the Flame
B. C. Barker-Benfield
11 A Committee of One: Shelley's Preemptive Self-Censorships in the Draft
Manuscripts of Laon and Cythna and Legal Censorship of the Press
Michael J. Neth
12 Shelley as Sussex Gentleman and Wild Motorist: The Strange Case of
Kipling and Prometheus Unbound
Nora Crook
Select Bibliography of Works by Donald H. Reiman
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Michael Edson is assistant professor of English at the University of Wyoming.
Summary
Drawing together twelve essays on British Romantic authors and the theories underlying their modern editorial treatments, this book traces the continuing influence of Reiman’s scholarly approaches in four key areas of study: print culture, editorial theory, the Shelley circle, and transmission/reception of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings.
