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      Cultural Taste, Literary-Scholarly Publishing, and James De Mille’s Strange Manuscript

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      Date
      2019-04-10
      Author
      Dorward, Sarah
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      This research tracks and questions the publication history of James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder from the New Canadian Library’s 1969 edition, through to the two academic renditions of the novel, the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Text’s edition, edited by Malcolm Parks, and the Broadview Press edition, edited by Daniel Burgoyne. This study builds on the elegantly conducted editorial and bibliographical work done by scholars including Reginald E. Watters, Malcolm Parks, Patricia Monk, and Daniel Burgoyne to contribute to a history of taste in Canadian literature studies and publishing between the 1960s and early-2000s. Through the use of a multidisciplinary and mixed-methods approach, primarily utilizing descriptive bibliography, personal interview, archival work, and book history, this research questions the motives of Canadian scholarly-literary and trade publishers, and questions the authenticity of new editions nineteenth-century Canadian texts, illustrated through the treatment of De Mille’s novel, in the present, digital age.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Parkinson, David J
      Committee
      Thorpe, Douglas
      Copyright Date
      June 2019
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/11954
      Subject
      Canadian literature
      Nineteenth-Century
      James De Mille
      A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
      Bibliographical Studies
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