Editing the Long Nineteenth Century hosted speakers from across the UK to discuss the often-unwritten principles and practices of textual criticism. Topics included specific authors and literary circles, textual skills for close reading, and considerations for different types of edition.
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| Articles originating from these talks have been published in Essays in Criticism under the series ‘The Editorial Imagination’: Peter McDonald, ‘Editing Yeats: The Widening Gyre’, Essays in Criticism, 68/4 (2018), pp. 415-427 Stephen Gill, ‘Wordsworth and his Editors’, Essays in Criticism, 69/1 (2019), pp. 1-15 | |
Cambridge Series
In 2015, Editing the Long Nineteenth Century was first convened in association with the Cambridge Faculty of English and the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts:
Editing the Long Nineteenth Century (Lent Term 2015)
Convenor: Michael Sullivan
21 January 2015, Faculty of English, Cambridge
Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Clare Hall, Cambridge) – Some Varieties of Editing
4 February 2015, Faculty of English, Cambridge
Dr Catherine Phillips (Downing College, Cambridge) – Working with Manuscripts: Examples from W. B. Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins
18 February 2015, Faculty of English, Cambridge
Professor Nora Crook (Anglia Ruskin University) – Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry: Editing a Variorum Edition
At Cambridge, I also co-founded the Nineteenth Century Graduate Workshop, which provided a new forum for postgraduate researchers to deliver and discuss their on-going research. The series welcomed papers on all aspects of long-nineteenth-century literature, and was open to the many diverse approaches involved in its study.