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It is a characteristic of the genetic critics’ condition that they live in the hope, or under the threat, of the discovery of new manuscripts that will confirm their hypotheses—or destroy them. Discovering manuscripts that were believed not to exist is an experience that is both thrilling and traumatic. The defamiliarizing effect of seeing archaic versions of a well-known work is compounded when unexpected new elements are introduced in a writer’s archive. The chapter explores several examples of problems raised by the recent discovery of important new Joyce manuscripts. This ‘newness’ can be considered as emblematic of the status of writers’ manuscripts in general.
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Ferrer, D. (2020). The ‘Newness’ of Manuscripts. In: Bloom, J., Rovera, C. (eds) Genesis and Revision in Modern British and Irish Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50277-5_5
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