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Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems
Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known 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 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.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
About the author
Jack Stillinger
33ÌýbooksJack Stillinger has been a member of the English faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1958 and Center for Advanced Study Professor of English since 1970. He has published 26 books (monographs, textual studies, scholarly editions) and numerous articles and reviews, mainly on nineteenth-century British literature.
Stillinger has held fellowships and awards from, among others, the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was the 1986 recipient of the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Scholar Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Stillinger has held fellowships and awards from, among others, the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was the 1986 recipient of the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Scholar Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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