![]() Two dramatically different responses to this debate, and to philosophies of editing generally, appear in the recently published, traditionally authoritative variorum Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Textual editors and scholars debate questions as basic as what constitutes a Dickinson poem, how many poems she wrote, whether her hand-scripted manuscript booklets constitute publication and determine the order in which poems should now be printed, and how the poems are most accurately transcribed in print. This is such a moment in Dickinson studies. With particular authors and at particular moments in the history of their literary reception, however, such decisions dominate literary scholarship. Usually such decisions remain all but invisible to readers and are ignored by most critics. ![]() ![]() Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885, By Elizabeth Petrino, University Press of New England, 1998.Įditing has always been a culturally embedded and interpretive activity, in the sense that it involves decisions that determine how a text is read. ![]()
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