The Culture of Collected Editions

List of Plates List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon; A.Nash PART ONE: AUTHORIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Collecting Ben Jonson; I.Donaldson Dividing and Conquering Milton; P.Lindenbaum 'For Who so Fond as Youthful Bards of Fame?' Pope's Works of 1717; J.McLaverty Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture; M.Anesko The Collected Editions of Hardy, James, and Meredith, with Some Concluding Thoughts on the Desirability of a Taxonomy of the Book; S.Gatrell Henry James and the Cultural Frame of the New York Edition; P.Horne 'The Dead Should Be Protected From Their Own Carelessness': The Collected Editions of Robert Louis Stevenson; A.Nash Contested Districts: Synge's Textual Self; W. Gould PART TWO: EDITORIAL AND MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVES 'Much They Ought Not To Have Attempted': Editors of Collected Editions of Shakespeare from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; G.Ioppolo Shakespeare Goes to College: Oxford and Cambridge Collected Editions; A.Murphy The Life in Death of Editorial Exchange: the Bollingen Collected Coleridge; J.C.C.Mays Romantic Collected Editions: Varieties of Editorial Experience; D.H.Reiman An Editorial Assessment of The Complete Works of George Orwell ; P.Davison What Bowers Wrought: An Assessment of the Center for Editions of American Authors; M.J.Bruccoli Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantam World; J.J.McGann Index