The Analytical Finding List gives a systematic description of the manuscript versions and publication history of every known Harpur poem. The dating of manuscript versions could only be achieved the hard way: through detailed comparison of texts. This is an essential reference book for any library dealing with the colonial period of Australian literature.

Few women of any age can have lived a more varied life than did travel writer, Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993). This slender volume of letters written to her old friend Sir Harry Luke contains the only unbroken series of her published letters addressed to a single correspondent and is the only one to have been presented unabridged, extensively researched and carefully edited. An extended biographical essay precedes the letters, offering a new interpretation of her intriguing life. 

The Editorial Gaze, ed. Paul Eggert and Margaret Sankey (New York: Garland Press, 1998), is a series of essays which assess the implications of postmodern thought on one of the oldest and most fundamental cultural activities. The essays cover editorial responsibility, the 'death of the author', the nature of the authorial voice, actual editing in various literary areas and in musicology, recorded music, and the preservation of oral literature.

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EDITING IN AUSTRALIA

Editing in Australia, ed. Paul Eggert (English Department ADFA, 1990) is the proceedings of an editorial theory and practice conference held at ADFA in 1989. The volume costs AUD$20.00.

Order from: p.eggert@adfa.edu.au

A bibliography of critical editions prepared by Australians and New Zealanders, compiled by Kym McCauley, has been added to this web site. An article based on this listing by him and Paul Eggert appeared in the BSANZ Bulletin, issue no. 4 for 1995 and is available electronically:

Critical and Scholarly Editing in Australia and New Zealand in the Last Twenty-Five Years:

An Essay on the Nomenclature of Editions and a Representative Listing.

An account of the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre's development of electronic editions, published in Computers and Texts is also available electronically:

Computers and Texts (Oxford); No. 8 (December 1994), pp. 5-7.

Electronic versions of the papers given at conferences of the History of the Book in Australia are also available.