Works on the fluid text and fluid-text editing
By John Bryant
Books
Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee. A Fluid Text Analysis, with an Edition of the Typee Manuscript. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. 312 pp.
Editions
Herman Melville’s Typee: A Fluid-Text Edition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/Melville. Awarded MLA’s CSE Seal, 2009.
Moby-Dick. A Longman Critical Edition. Ed. John Bryant and Haskell Springer. New York: Longman, 2006. [A newly edited text, with introduction, fluid text displays, footnotes, explanatory notes, revision narratives, illustrations and glossary.]
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville. Ed. with an Introduction and notes. Modern Library. Random House, 2003. [Includes a fluid text edition of selected manuscripts.]
Melville’s Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library. Random House, 2001. 622 pp. [Anthology of Melville’s writing, with introduction, head notes, “fluid text” sections on Melville’s creative process, and annotations.]
Typee, by Herman Melville. Ed. John Bryant. New York: Penguin American Classics, 1996; rev. 2005. 328 pp. including introduction, note on text, annotations, lists of expurgations and emendations, and a reading text of the Typee manuscript fragment.
Chapters in Books
“Making the Invisible Visual: Melville’s Fluid Texts in the Digital Age.” Visuality and Vision in American Literature. Ed. Zbigniew Maszewski, Weronika Kaszkiewicz, and Tomasz Sawczuk. Bialystok, PL: Bialystok University Press, 2014. Pp. 59-70.
“Wound, Beast, Revision: Versions of the Melville Meme.” In The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Ed. Robert S. Levine. 2nd ed.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 202-18.
“Textual Identity and Adaptive Revision: Editing Adaptation as a Fluid Text.” In Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions. Ed. Jørgen Bruhn, Ann Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 47-67.
“Where is the Text of America?: Witnessing Revision and the Online Critical Archive.” In American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. Ed. Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. Pp. 145-68.
“‘A Work I Have Never Happened to Meet’: Melville’s Version of Porter in Typee.” In Whole Oceans Away: Melville and the Pacific. Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007. Pp. 83-110.
“The Melville Text.” In A Companion to Herman Melville, ed. Wyn Kelley. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 553-66.
Articles
“The Scholarly Edition and the Digital Critical Archive: Interaction, Collaboration, Community, and Adaptive Revision,” Committee on Scholarly Editions, MLA Commons. 26 July 2016. https://scholarlyeditions.commons.mla.org/2016/07/26/the-scholarly-edition-and-the-digital-critical-archive-interaction-collaboration-community-and-adaptive-revision/.
“How Billy Budd Grew Black and Beautiful: Versions of Melville in the Digital Age,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 16.1 (March 2014): 60-86.
“Revisiòn, Adaptaciòn y Traducciòn: Editar el Texto Fluido en la Era Digital” [trans. Into Spanish by Maria Julia Rossi], Revista Iberoamericana 80 (Jan-Mar 2014): 31-48.
“Rewriting Moby-Dick: Politics, Textual Identity, and the Revision Narrative,” PMLA 125.4 (October 2010): 1043-60.
“Witness and Access: The Uses of the Fluid Text,” Textual Cultures 2.1 (Spring 2007): 16-42.
“Versions of Moby-Dick: Plagiarism, Censorship, and Some Notes toward an Ethics of the Fluid Text,” Variants 4 (2005): 1-27.
“Melville’s Rose Poems: As They Fell,” Arizona Quarterly 53.1 (Spring 1997): 49-84.
“Politics, Imagination, and the Fluid Text.” Special Issue: Editing and the Imagination. Studies in the Literary Imagination 29.2 (Fall, 1996): 89-107.
