Publishing, Editing, and Reception

Essays in Honor of Donald H. Reiman

Contributions by B. C. Barker-Benfield, Nora Crook, Stuart Curran, Hermione de Almeida, Doucet Devin Fischer, Neil Fraistat, David Greetham, Steven E. Jones, Alice Levine, Michael J. Neth, Michael O'Neill, Charles E. Robinson, Timothy Webb Edited by Michael Edson

Publication date:

14 August 2015

Length of book:

318 pages

Publisher

University of Delaware Press

ISBN-13: 9781611495782

Publishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the University of Delaware in 1992. The essays, written by friends, students, and collaborators, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Reiman’s long career. Mirroring the focus of Reiman’s work during his years at Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in New York and as lead editor of Shelley and his Circle, 1773–1822 (Harvard University Press), the essays in this collection explore authors such as Mary Shelley, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley; moreover, they confirm the continuing influence of Reiman’s writings in the fields of editing and British Romanticism. Ranging from topics such as Byron’s relationship with his publisher John Murray and the reading practices in the Shelley circle to Rudyard Kipling’s response to Shelley’s politics, these essays draw on a dazzling variety of published and manuscript sources while engaging directly with many of Reiman’s most influential theories and arguments.

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Michael Edson
Remembering Don Reiman: The Pforzheimer Years
Doucet Devin Fischer

Part 1: Publishing and Print Culture
1 Byron’s House of Murray
Hermione de Almeida
2 Hazlitt and Byron: With a New Look at The Liberal
Charles E. Robinson
3 Mocking Monuments: The Regent’s Bomb, Satire, and Authority
Steven E. Jones

Part 2: New Perspectives on the Shelleys
4 A Defence of Poetry and Adonais: Configurations
Stuart Curran
5 Bound by Such a Chain: Shelley and Rhyme
Michael O’Neill
6 Reading Aloud in the Shelley Circle
Timothy Webb

Part 3: Romantic Bards and Modern Editors
7 Indeterminacy and Method: Editing Byron’s Accidentals
Alice Levine
8 Getting Beyond “Mere Chatter about Shelley”
David Greetham
9 “Editing Shelley” Again
Neil Fraistat

Part 4: Shelley’s Afterlives
10 Lady Shelley Trims the Flame
B. C. Barker-Benfield
11 A Committee of One: Shelley's Preemptive Self-Censorships in the Draft
Manuscripts of Laon and Cythna and Legal Censorship of the Press
Michael J. Neth
12 Shelley as Sussex Gentleman and Wild Motorist: The Strange Case of
Kipling and Prometheus Unbound
Nora Crook

Select Bibliography of Works by Donald H. Reiman
Index
About the Contributors

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