We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing (vol. 36, 2015), online at www.scholarlyediting.org. Scholarly Editing publishes peer-reviewed editions of primary source materials of cultural significance while continuing the tradition of publishing articles and reviews about scholarly editing. This year, we have introduced a new feature, “Reflections on the Editor’s Craft,” where we will publish the views of experienced editors on practical aspects of editing. As always, the editions represent diverse materials from a variety of fields, and this year we present editions of a nineteenth-century American manuscript drama; an antislavery poem’s circulation and recreation through nineteenth-century American newspaper reprintings; a sixteenth-century Italian play; and a twentieth century experimental autobiography presented in a provocatively nonlinear, interactive edition. We are pleased not only to present editors with a rigorously peer-reviewed publication platform, but also to share fascinating documents from cultural history with the reading public. All of this material is available freely online and is completely open-access. Please see below for our call for editions and articles for next year’s issue, as well as the full table of contents for the 2015 issue.
Amanda Gailey (gailey@unl.edu) and Andrew Jewell (ajewell2@unl.edu)
Editors, Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing
INVITING EDITION PROPOSALS AND ARTICLES FOR THE 2016 ISSUE OF SCHOLARLY EDITING
Scholarly Editing invites proposals for the 2016 issue. Many scholars know fascinating texts that deserve to be edited thoughtfully and imaginatively, and we offer a venue to turn this knowledge into sustainable, peer-reviewed publications that will enrich the digital record of our cultural heritage. If you are interested in editing a small-scale digital edition, we want to hear from you. Proposals for the 2016 issue are due by May 15, 2015. Please see details for submitting a proposal at www.scholarlyediting.org/se.about.html.
We also welcome submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Articles must be submitted bySeptember 14, 2015, to be considered for the 2016 issue. Please see details at www.scholarlyediting.org/se.about.html.
CONTENTS for VOLUME 36, 2015
Introduction to Volume 36 of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing by Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) and Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Editions
- Encoding and Representing Repetition in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life edited by Daniel Carter (University of Texas at Austin)
- “a black diamond among thim American wifes”: Kate Edwards Swayze’s Antislavery Adaptation of George Colman’s Inkle and Yarico edited by Laura L. Mielke and Martha Baldwin (University of Kansas)
- Lo Stufaiuolo by Anton Francesco Doni: A Scholarly Edition edited by Elena Pierazzo (Université de Grenoble 3 ‘Stendhal’)
- Satire in Circulation: James Russell Lowell’s “LETTER FROM A VOLUNTEER IN SALTILLO” edited by Todd Thompson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) and Jessica Showalter (Penn State Libraries)
Essays
- “Letters as Critical Texts: A Consideration of Mark Twain’s ‘Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript’” by Amanda Gagel (Mark Twain Papers, University of California, Berkeley)
- “The Second Story” (Presidential Address, Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, 2014) by James P. McClure (Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University)
- Reflections on the Editor’s Craft: “Editing Death: An Element of Craft” by Ann D. Gordon
Reviews
- The History and Present State of Virginia. By Robert Beverley. Edited by Susan Scott Parrish. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, 2013 and The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover. Edited by Kevin Joel Berland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, 2013. by Brent Tarter
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Vol. 2: The Human Rights Years, 1949–1952. Edited by Allida Black. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. by Christopher Leahy (Keuka College) and Sharon Williams Leahy (HistoryPreserve.com)
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010 and Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition. Edited by Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith et al. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. by R. Kent Rasmussen
- Recent Editions by Ellen C. Hickman (Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series)