Troublesome Restorations: Editing Janauschek’s Bleak House Adaptation

Presentation Type

Poster

Major

English Literature, Art History

Abstract

As a serial novel immediately popular upon its publication, Charles Dickens’ Bleak House generated a range of contemporaneous responses. One of the ways that this reaction materialized was through a group of plays that were performed before the novel had been completely published. This project seeks to standardize the manuscript of one of these plays in order to prepare it for publication and analysis in a wider context. In performing this editorial task, the researcher encounters difficulties such as antiquated word use and omitted phrases and sentences. Ultimately, the editorial task is to determine how far one goes in altering the manuscript in order to make it useful to another researcher.

Faculty Mentor

Julianne Smith

Funding Source or Research Program

Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative

Location

Waves Cafeteria, Tyler Campus Center

Start Date

21-3-2014 2:00 PM

End Date

21-3-2014 3:00 PM

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Troublesome Restorations: Editing Janauschek’s Bleak House Adaptation

Waves Cafeteria, Tyler Campus Center

As a serial novel immediately popular upon its publication, Charles Dickens’ Bleak House generated a range of contemporaneous responses. One of the ways that this reaction materialized was through a group of plays that were performed before the novel had been completely published. This project seeks to standardize the manuscript of one of these plays in order to prepare it for publication and analysis in a wider context. In performing this editorial task, the researcher encounters difficulties such as antiquated word use and omitted phrases and sentences. Ultimately, the editorial task is to determine how far one goes in altering the manuscript in order to make it useful to another researcher.