Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction: the material text, Maureen Bell; Why has Q4 Romeo and Juliet such an intelligent editor? Lynette Hunter; Marvell’s coy mistresses, Paul Hammond; Congreve and the integrity of the text, D.F. McKenzie; The economics of the 18th-century provincial book trade: the case of Ward and Chandler, C.Y. Ferdinand; Thomas Gray, David Hume and John Home’s Douglas, Roger Lonsdale; Texts in conversion: Coleridge’s Sonnets from Various Authors (1796), David Fairer; Reading the Brontës abroad: A study in transmission of Victorian novels in continental Europe, Inga-Stina Ewbank; Sir Walter, sex and the SoA, Simon Eliot; Making (pre-) history: Mycenae, Pausanias, Frazer, David Richards; Editing private papers: three examples from Dreiser, James L. W. West III; Coercive suggestion: rhetoric and community in revaluation, Martin Dodsworth; Re-reading Elizabeth Nowen, Hermione Lee; ’Drastic reductions’: partial disclosures and displaced authorities in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat, Alistair Stead; ’Not undesirable’: J.M. Coetzee and the burdens of censorship, Peter D. McDonald; Prospero in Cyberspace, Martin Butler; Texts and worlds in Amitav Ghosh’s In An Antique Land, Shirley Chew; Congratulations, Christopher Ricks; Index.