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
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.