The Great Gatsby - Variorum edition

Variorum Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-009-28587-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald

This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the author's masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses including the extant holograph of the novel and Fitzgerald's revised galley proofs; the first edition and later impressions from the first-edition plates; and importantly, Fitzgerald's personal copy of the novel, which bears corrections and revisions in his hand. This edition removes instances of over-correction in later editions of the novel, where there are numerous examples of textual corruption, thus giving control of the text back to Fitzgerald. This critical edition includes an introduction, tracing the history of the novel, an emended text, emendation tables, Fitzgerald's 1935 introduction, and fourteen illustrations. Historical annotations provide identifications of persons, places, events, popular songs, and literary works - all now made available to readers, teachers, critics, and scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzgerald, F Scott

West, James L W

West III, James L. W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The Variorum Text; Emendations and variants; Explanatory notes; Illustration; Appendix: introduction to the modern library impression (1934).

Über Autor(innen)

West III, James L. W.
James L. W. West, III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. West is the author of American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900 (1988), William Styron: A Life (1998) and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love (2005). West has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has had Fulbright appointments in England (at the University of Cambridge) and in Belgium (at the Université de Liège). West is the General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.