ABOUT THIS BOOK

An evaluation of the importance of textual criticism in evaluation of important literary works, based on his study of important American literary works by authors such as James, Crane, and Mailer.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Hershel Parker is H. Fletcher Brown Professor of American Romanticism at the University of Delaware and Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. He is editor of several collections on Melville, including collaborations with Harrison Hayford on the Norton Critical Edition of Moby-Dick and Norton "Moby-Dick" as Dubloon and with Brian Higgins on the G. K. Hall Critical Essays on Hermann Melville's "Pierre" and Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," and is also editor of the 1820-65 section in the Norton Anthology of American Literature. His Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction was published in 1984 by Northwestern University Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Lost Authority and Cheap Thrills
Chapter 2: The Determinacy of the Creative Process and the Authority of the Author's Belated Textual Decisions
Chapter 3: The Authority of the Editor and His Formula: Textual Theory and Practice since "Bibliography and the Novelistic Fallacy"
Chapter 4: The Authority of the Revised Text and the Disappearance of the Author: What Critics of Henry James Did with Textual Evidence in the Heyday of the New Criticism
Chapter 5: Pudd'nhead Wilson: Jack-leg Author, Unreadable Text, and Sense-Making Critics
Chapter 6: The Red Badge of Courage: The Private History of a Campaign that—Succeeded?
Chapter 7: Normal Mailer's Revision of the Esquire Version of An American Dream: The Authority of "Built-in" Intentionality
Conclusion: Textual Evidence and the Current Practice of Theory
Index

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