Speculative authorship: The family narrative as editorial project in Theodor Storm’s Carsten Curator
Editors take on authorial power when their role moves beyond the recovery and explication of a text to its revision for a specific audience. This article examines the editorial recreation of two types of domestic narrative: national literary history, constructed by philologists; and family records,...
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| description | Editors take on authorial power when their role moves beyond the recovery and explication of a text to its revision for a specific audience. This article examines the editorial recreation of two types of domestic narrative: national literary history, constructed by philologists; and family records, constructed by patriarchs. Both seek to create a particular image of community and belonging, and so are significant for the popular perception of a coherent, shared culture in the context of nineteenth-century German nationalism. Via a metaphorical reading of the family in Theodor Storm’s novella Carsten Curator, I reveal how the editors of such histories become ‘speculative authors’: they attempt to construct a narrative of continuity for the future by rewriting a domestic past. Their official records, however, exclude competing narratives that have the potential to undermine these projects. Editorial omission becomes a flawed attempt to achieve authorial control. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:cd563abe-a61f-40cd-89c5-0ff0438334bd2022-03-27T07:28:00ZSpeculative authorship: The family narrative as editorial project in Theodor Storm’s Carsten CuratorJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:cd563abe-a61f-40cd-89c5-0ff0438334bdEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordOxford University Press2018Neilly, JEditors take on authorial power when their role moves beyond the recovery and explication of a text to its revision for a specific audience. This article examines the editorial recreation of two types of domestic narrative: national literary history, constructed by philologists; and family records, constructed by patriarchs. Both seek to create a particular image of community and belonging, and so are significant for the popular perception of a coherent, shared culture in the context of nineteenth-century German nationalism. Via a metaphorical reading of the family in Theodor Storm’s novella Carsten Curator, I reveal how the editors of such histories become ‘speculative authors’: they attempt to construct a narrative of continuity for the future by rewriting a domestic past. Their official records, however, exclude competing narratives that have the potential to undermine these projects. Editorial omission becomes a flawed attempt to achieve authorial control. |
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