Making the Archives Talk - New and Selected Essays in Bibliography, Editing, and Book History

About the author

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University and general editor of Penn State Studies in the History of the Book. He has published some twenty scholarly editions—among them editions of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise and Trimalchio; and William Styron’s Inheritance of Night and Letters to My Father. West’s books include American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900 (1988), William Styron: A Life (1998), and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King (2005). He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Academy in Rome. West has held Fulbright appointments in England at Cambridge University and in Belgium at the Université de Liège.

Summary

A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers).

Product details

• Authors: James L. W. West Iii
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2015
• EAN: 9780271050683
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05068-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism