Editorial Gaze

• Preface * Introduction, Margaret Sankey * Editorial Theory , Random Cloud, Enter Reader, T. H. Howard-Hill * The Dangers of Editing, or, the Death of the Editor, David Greetham * 'What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking, 'Someone Said, 'What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking?' (Greetham Version), or, 'What does it matter who is speaking?': Editorial Recuperation of the Estranged Author (Eggert Version), Paul Eggert * Social Discourse or Authorial Agency: Bridging the Divide between Editing and Theory * Theory in Practice , Richard Fotheringham * Editing Popular Nineteenth-Century Melodramas, Mary Jane Edwards * Editing a Major Canadian Novels William Kirby's The Golden Dog, Margaret Sankey * From Seventeenth-Century Clandestine Manuscript to Contemporary Edition: L'Autre Monde of Cyrano do Bergerac, Mary Chan * Editorial Decisions for Roger North's Life of the Lord Keeper North: Practice and Theory * Extending the Gaze , Margaret Clunies Ross * Editing the Oral Text: Medieval and Modern Transformations, Jeff Brownrigg * The Art of Audio-Editing: Re-presenting Early Australian Vocal Recordings, Robyn Holmes * Australian Music Editing and Authenticity: Would the real Mrs Monk please stand up?, Note on Contributors * Index

"Each essay in the book makes an impressive contribution to editorial studies, and the diversity of the topics they take up reflects the ever widening range of theories and texts considered by contemporary editors." -- Papersof the Bibliographical Society of America" The Editorial Gaze then address the issue: how to make editors more visible...more culturally important than they seem to be at present. The Eggert/Sankey volume goes far toward achieving that goal." -- W. Speed Hill, Text