Open AccessThe Becoming of the Scholarly Editor
Author(s) -
Matt Cohen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
textual cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1933-7418
pISSN - 1559-2936
DOI - 10.14434/tc.v14i1.32825
Subject(s) - scholarship , relation (database) , work (physics) , sociology , intervention (counseling) , process (computing) , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , psychology , political science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , database , psychiatry , operating system
Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies makes an important intervention in textual scholarship by redefining scholarly editions as functions of a process enacted in dynamic relation to an idea of a work on one hand and imagined readers — including the author as a first reader of drafts — on the other. This essay responds to The Work and the Reader by pursuing the definition of the “reader” toward a rethinking of edition-making as both a material and an ethical practice.