Philip Gaskell’s A New Introduction to Bibliography (1972) shows how scholarly interpretation of a text relies on an understanding of the conditions in which it was produced. These debates reconsider what and whose labor scholars acknowledge in the historical narratives they tell.īibliography-the study of books as material and cultural objects-is the approach most attuned to this labor. His unacknowledged death made his posthumous recovery more dramatic, when literary critics like Raymond Weaver, Carl Van Doren, and Lewis Mumford brought him back to scholarly attention thirty years later, in what we now call the “Melville Revival.” However, recent scholars like Kathleen Kier, Elizabeth Renker, and Jordan Stein have shown how the dominant narrative of Melville’s singular “Revival” erases the contributions of homosexuals and women to Melville’s legacy. He spent the end of his life working as a customs inspector and writing poetry that few read.
When Herman Melville died in 1891, he was hardly the literary giant we read today.
McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (1986) Who, in short, authored Congreve? Whose concept of reader do these forms of the text imply: the author’s, the actor’s, the printer’s, or the publisher’s? And what of the reader?ĭ.
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