Much labouring
Subtitle: the texts and authors of Yeats's first modernist books
By: David Holdeman.
Series: Editorial theory and literary criticism
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Criticism, Textual.; Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939.; Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Poetic works.; Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Poetry -- Authorship -- Collaboration.; Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.; Poetry -- Editing.
Other titles: Much laboring
Description: With a career stretching from the last years of the nineteenth century well into the 1930s, William Butler Yeats is perceived as a key figure in the transition from Romanticism to modernism in English literature. In Much Labouring David Holdeman opens up new paths of thinking about Yeats's modernism by paying close attention to the production of his early books as well as to their publication histories.

Although Much Labouring will particularly interest students of modernism, the uncommon significance of Yeats's textual experiments suggests new perspectives on interpretive and editorial theories and practices generally.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: "This thin white volume" : gender, class, nationalism, and the bibliographical architecture of Yeats's developing modernism; title: "In the mass" : diachronic codes and the remakings of Yeats's lyric canon in England and America, 1903-1908; title: "In the guts of the living" : In the seven woods and the textual and reception histories of Yeats's canon from the 1910s to the 1990s.