Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Revision as making: the Prelude and its peers Jonathan Wordsworth; 2. Wordsworth's poems: the question of text Stephen Gill; 3. 'A Power to Virtue Friendly': the Pedlar's Guilt in Wordsworth's Ruined Cottage Jonathan Barron and Kenneth R. Johnston; 4. Revising the revolution: history and imagination in The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 Nicholas Roe; 5. Crossings out: the problem of textual passage in The Prelude Keith Hanley; 6. Reflections on having edited Coleridge's poems J. C. C. Mays; 7. Creative process and concealment in Coleridge's poetry Norman Fruman; 8. Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere journals: the patterns and pressures of composition Pamela Woof; 9. Byron and The Truth in Masquerade Jerome McGann; 10. Don Juan and the revisionary self Peter Manning; 11. Shelley's manuscripts and the web of circumstance Donald H. Reiman; 12. Spaces between words: writing Mont Blanc Robert Brinkley; 13. Correcting the irritability of his temper: the evolution of Leigh Hunt's Autobiography Timothy Webb; 14. Finding Mary Shelley in her letters Betty T. Bennett; 15. Keats's extempore effusions and the question of intentionality Jack Stillinger; 16. Keats's two Hyperions and the problem of Milton Jonathan Bate; 17. Revising Clare John Lucas; List of contributors; Index.

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Leading American and British textual editors respond to the recent radical overhaul in the editing of Romantic texts in the light of developments in critical theory.

Reviews

"Romantic Revisions is an important collection, not least because of the symbolic gesture it makes in naming the state of Romantic texts as a discursive field in its own right." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

"As the first major collection of essays to integrate bibliographical and hermeneutic approaches to the Period, Romantic Revisions make a strong -and what I believe will be an influential -case for the variety of ways that the pursuit of textual studies can alter and enrich our understanding of Romanticism." Neil Fraistat, PBSA (Bibliographical Society of America)

"Readers interested in knowing how the interpretation of Romantic literary texts can be altered by a concrete editorial understanding of their manuscript form, publication history, and the conditions under which they have been prduced and received will find much to value in this wide-ranging collection of essays by many of the best-known contemporary editors and critics of Romantic literature....Robert Brinkley and Keith Hanley have produced a volume of essays that clearly demonstrates the interpretive value of a knowledge of literary revisions and the important issues that are currently shaping textual theory." Alan Bewell, Modern Philology

"As a group these essays richly exploit the wealth of manuscript evidence that has accumulated over the past several decades....One senses that here this collection of distinguished essays indeed looks forward, and that a new generation of romantic texts may be finding its rationale." Studies in Romanticism