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Book SynopsisPublishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the University of Delaware in 1992. The essays, written by friends, students, and collaborators, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Reiman’s long career. Mirroring the focus of Reiman’s work during his years at Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in New York and as lead editor of Shelley and his Circle, 1773–1822 (Harvard University Press), the essays in this collection explore authors such as Mary Shelley, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley; moreover, they confirm the continuing influence of Reiman’s writings in the fields of editing and British Romanticism. Ranging from topics such as Byron’s relationship with his publisher John Murray and the reading practices in the Shelley circle to Rudyard Kipling’s response to Shelley’s politics, these essays draw on a dazzling variety of published and manuscript sources while engaging directly with many of Reiman’s most influential theories and arguments.
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Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Michael Edson Remembering Don Reiman: The Pforzheimer Years Doucet Devin Fischer Part 1: Publishing and Print Culture 1 Byron’s House of Murray Hermione de Almeida 2 Hazlitt and Byron: With a New Look at The Liberal Charles E. Robinson 3 Mocking Monuments: The Regent’s Bomb, Satire, and Authority Steven E. Jones Part 2: New Perspectives on the Shelleys 4 A Defence of Poetry and Adonais: Configurations Stuart Curran 5 Bound by Such a Chain: Shelley and Rhyme Michael O’Neill 6 Reading Aloud in the Shelley Circle Timothy Webb Part 3: Romantic Bards and Modern Editors 7 Indeterminacy and Method: Editing Byron’s Accidentals Alice Levine 8 Getting Beyond “Mere Chatter about Shelley” David Greetham 9 “Editing Shelley” Again Neil Fraistat Part 4: Shelley’s Afterlives 10 Lady Shelley Trims the Flame B. C. Barker-Benfield 11 A Committee of One: Shelley's Preemptive Self-Censorships in the Draft Manuscripts of Laon and Cythna and Legal Censorship of the Press Michael J. Neth 12 Shelley as Sussex Gentleman and Wild Motorist: The Strange Case of Kipling and Prometheus Unbound Nora Crook Select Bibliography of Works by Donald H. Reiman Index About the Contributors
