Dear Wim and all,
I'd love to be in London [ice storm here in NYC] to attend any and all
sessions of MMS [Modern Manuscript Studies], or is it MSS [Manuscript
Studies Seminar]? The question for me is how "M" is the first "M" of
MMS Is it for Modernists only?
My online fluid text edition of Melville's Typee MS is out (as part of
UVa Press's Rotunda series, at
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8080/melville/
and it tries to walk users through each step of revision in that rough
draft MS. But while I think of Melville as pretty "M" (for Modern), I
don't know if others would consider him such. Typee was HM's first book
(pub. 1846); is the first MS of the first book of a proto-modernist of
interest to this group?
In any event, I am glad that Peter Shillingsburg's errant collegial
email has sparked some discussion on a list that needs to be re-sparked.
By the way, my Longman edition of Moby-Dick is also just out. No MS
exists for MD (sadly, or rather, thank god), but the Longman edition is
not the "old" eclectic text of 1988 but an edition that uses the first
print edition as a base version, and prints "revision sites" in a
different font so that readers will go to a "revision narrative" that
explains what happens to the text at each site.
yrs,
John
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John Bryant, English Department, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549
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Dear Colleagues,
Please note that the first session for this term of the Modern
Manuscript Studies Seminar will take place on 20 February in Stewart
House, University of London.
Speaker: Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton)
'"...if both body and soul are foolish, what is my intelligence worth?"
Beckett's Manuscript Transcriptions of "Geulincx, or, Effing the
Ineffable"'
Venue: Room 273 (ST)
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Regards,
(Dr) Wim Van Mierlo
Institute of English Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://ies.sas.ac.uk
http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_events.php?page=ies_seminars&func=re
sults&aoi_id=160
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