This page is designed as an online showcase of work currently being done by University of Washington students in the field of Textual Studies, and captures one type of "end product" of the Spring 1998 course in Textual Studies taught by Mona Modiano. Although the written work is only partially represented here, it would have been difficult to convey the entirety of the work done during the course--even if the site did fully represent our written efforts--as it involved interactions with three guest scholars (Peter Shillingsburg, David Greetham and Randall McLeod, or Random Clod, if you prefer), and frequent gatherings fueled by food and drink. There are some life events that resist translation into hypertext, yet we hope that those events positively influenced our written efforts.

The site is divided into three sections. The first deals with various issues in textual theory. Next, we have provided a sample of individual papers which explore some of these issues against particular texts. The third section serves as your springboard to other cyber-lands, most all relating in some way to Textual Studies.

Class Members

(The Syllabus  and Course Description are available on the Seminars in Textual Studies page.)

I. Textual Theory Overview:

• "Concepts of the Author"
  by Julia E. Mentan
• An Overview of "Contemporary German Editorial Theory"
  by Kenny Ng
• Intention
  by Tim Dawes, Carol Ivan, Trudy Mercer and Meg Roland
  • Introduction
  • Fredson Bowers: "Textual Criticism"
  • G. Thomas Tanselle: "The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention"
  • Peter Shillingsburg: Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age. Chapter 4, "Intention"
  • Michael Hancher: "Three Kinds of Intention"
  • James McLaverty: "The Concept of Authorial Intention in Textual Criticism"
  • Steven Mailloux: "Textual Scholarship and 'Author's Final Intention'"
  • David Greetham: Theories of the Text
  • Works Cited

II. Papers:

• "Profaning the Holy: Hallowed Profanities in Verso's The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition"
  by Julia E. Mentan
• "Editorial Goblins: Towards an Understanding of Bibliographical Codes in Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'"
  by Lisa Spagnolo

III. Links:

• Society for Textual Scholarship
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
• CTI: Centre for Textual Studies

and, of course,

• The UW Textual Studies Program
• The University of Washington Home Page
• The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

Class Members

Raimonda (Mona) Modiano--Instructor