Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

Stillinger, Jack

ISBN 10: 0195085833 / ISBN 13: 9780195085839

Published by Oxford University Press, 1994

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Blue cloth in a blue dw; pp. 255. Reassessing the Coleridge canon. Not clipped, chipped or bumped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195085833
• ISBN 13: 9780195085839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.58 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the constitution of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the constitution of literary works.

About the Author

Jack Stillinger is at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.