Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

Text 11 features eleven substantial essays, beginning with Jerome McGann's presidential address to the Society for Textual Scholarship, "Hideous Progeny, Rough Beasts: Editing as a Theoretical Pursuit." Other highlights include Kathryn Sutherland's examination of the relationship--and the changing relations--between "material text" and electronic textual formats, Kenneth Womack's study "Editing the Beatles," and Robin G. Schulze's exploration of textual development from an evolutionary perspective in "Textual Darwinism: Marianne Moore, the Text of Evolution, and the Evolving Text."The volume also includes a host of review essays and book reviews that consider recent textual and editorial approaches to Shakespeare, Henry James, Pound, Dickinson, Bakhtin, and Thackeray, among others.W. Speed Hill is Professor of English, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Edward M. Burns is Professor of English, William Paterson College. Peter Shillingsburg is Professor of English, Mississippi State University.