[Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway is part of the canon…but oh those editions….Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age: Duncan, Dennis

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As with most such discussions in the non-academic world, the assumption is that an 'edition' simply means a text published by a particular publisher. In Woolf's case--as with several other modernist writers--this is far from true. The students might have different versions of a text with the same title, and no amount of electronic searching will find in one edition of Mrs Dalloway (the US, for example) what is not in another (the UK, for example).

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To get the Dalloway reference you have to open the link, then click "See Inside" and search for Dalloway.

The discussion notes that the problem of students having different editions belongs very much to yesterday; today students are all using electronic editions and can find the right place in the text in the shake of a lamb's tail if they just have the start of a sentence. In one way this is clearly an advantage. But I fear that it sounds the death knell of student editions of classic (= out of copyright) literary texts, with their introductions, textual histories, and explanatory notes.

Jeremy H

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An assignment in MRS DALLOWAY is used as an example—and raises the issue of teaching it when students have difference editions.
Sound familiar?
Karen Levenback

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