Books

The Making of This Side of Paradise. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xvi, 140 pp.

American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900. Rosenbach Series. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xii, 172 pp. Paperback Edn., 1990. Nominated for the Gauss and Lowell Awards.

William Styron, A Life. New York : Random House, 1998. xiv, 506 pp. Nominated by Random House for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Unabridged audio versions: Books on Tape, 1999; American Printing House for the Blind, 2000.

The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King. New York : Random House, 2005. xx, 216 pp. Paperback edition, February 2006.

 

Scholarly Editions

Textual Editor, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie . Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. xii, 672 pp. Paperback reprint: Penguin American Library, 1981; Large paperback reprint: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press , 1997; New York Public Library Collector's Edition (cloth): NYPL/Doubleday, 1997.

Textual Editor, Theodore Dreiser, American Diaries, 1902-1926 . Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. xii, 458 pp. Paperback edn. 1983.

Textual Editor, Theodore Dreiser, An Amateur Laborer . Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. lvi, 208 pp. Paperback edn. 1984.

Editor, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt . Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. xvi, 580 pp. Published in paperback by Penguin USA , 1994, critical introduction by JLWW III. Classroom paperback, Penn Press, April 2006.

Editor, William Styron, Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness. Durham : Duke University Press, 1993. xx, 140 pp. Simultaneous limited signed edition.

Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise . Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. liv, 407 pp. Paperback edition, preface by JLWW III, Scribners/Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Co-editor, with Thomas P. Riggio. Dreiser's Russian Diary . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xiv, 298 pp.

Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers . Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxxii, 398 pp.

Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby. Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 192 pp. Paperback reprint, April 2002.

Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age . Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxviii, 540 pp.

Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 . Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxvi, 340 pp.

Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, All the Sad Young Men . Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxxvi, 504 pp.

 

Descriptive Bibliographies

William Styron: A Descriptive Bibliography . Boston : G.K. Hall, 1977. xxxviii, 252 pp.

Co-bibliographer, with Stuart Wright. Reynolds Price: A Bibliography, 1949-1984 . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1986. Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia . xvi, 122 pp.

 

Edited or compiled volumes

Co-editor, with Arthur D. Casciato. Critical Essays on William Styron . Boston : G.K. Hall, 1982. x, 318 pp.

Compiler, A Sister Carrie Portfolio . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1985. Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia . viii, 88 pp.

Editor, Conversations with William Styron . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 1985. xvi, 288 pp.

Co-editor, with Arthur D. Casciato. Tom Kromer, Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1986. viii, 298 pp. Paperback edn. 1987.

Guest Editor. Theodore Dreiser Issue. Papers on Language and Literature , 27 (Spring 1991), 168 pp.

Editor, Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. x, 226 pp. Simultaneous cloth and paper editions.

Co-curator, with Robert L. Byrd. In Solutide and in Company: The Writing of William Styron . Exhibition catalogue. Durham : William R. Perkins Library, 1998. 24 pp. Exhibit mounted at Duke University , 2 March - 26 April 1998.

Co-editor, with Maureen Bell, et al. Re-constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission . Aldershot : Ashgate, 2001. xii, 231 pp.

 

Editorships

General Editor, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Multi-volume edition, published by Cambridge University Press. 17 vols. projected; 8 in print; 1 in press.

General Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Penn State Press. Book series on publishing history, professional authorship, author-publisher relationships, compositional history, and concepts of literary property. Eleven books in print, four under contract.

Co-editor, with James O. Hoge, Review . University Press of Virginia . Clothbound annual which published essay-reviews of works of literary scholarship. Co-editor through fifteen vols., 1979-93; editorial board, 1994-2004. Series complete at 25 vols.

 

Articles

Contributions to Books:

"Fitzgerald and Esquire ," in The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism , ed. Jackson Bryer. Madison : Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1982, 149-66.

"Descriptive Bibliography, Detective Fiction, and Knowing the Rules," in Literary Reviewing , ed. James O. Hoge. Charlottesville : Univ. Press of Virginia , 1987, pp. 80-87.

"Theodore Dreiser," in the revised edition of Sixteen Modern American Authors , ed. Jackson Bryer. Durham : Duke Univ. Press, 1990, pp. 120-53.

"The Hotel World in Jennie Gerhardt ," in Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text , ed. James L. W. West III. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, pp. 194-207.

"Voices Interior and Exterior: William Styron's Narrative Personae," in Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel since the 1960s , ed. Melvin J. Friedman and Ben Siegel. Newark : Univ. of Delaware Press, 1995, pp. 48-61.

"Twentieth-Century American and British Literature," in Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research , ed. D. C. Greetham. New York : Modern Language Assoc., 1995, pp. 365-81.

"`What a Handsome Pair!' and the Institution of Marriage," in New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Neglected Stories , ed. Jackson R. Bryer. Columbia and London : Univ. of Missouri Press, 1996, pp. 219-31.

"The Iconic Dust Jacket: Fitzgerald and Styron," in The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture , ed. George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle. Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press, 1998, pp. 269-83.

"The Consequences of Historical Fiction," in The Historical Novel , ed. Barbara A. Paulson. Washington , DC : Library of Congress, 1999, pp. 33-42.

"Alcohol and Drinking in Sister Carrie ," in Theodore Dreiser and American Culture: New Readings , ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Newark : Univ. of Delaware Press, 2000, pp. 56-64.

"The Scholarly Editor as Biographer," in Textual Studies and the Common Reader , ed. Alexander Pettit. Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press , 2000, pp. 81-90. Reprinted from Studies in the Novel , Fall 1995.

"Editing Private Papers: Three Examples from Dreiser," in Re-constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission , ed. James L. W. West III, Maureen Bell, et al. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2001, pp. 124-36.

"The Question of Vocation in This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned ," in the Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald , ed. Ruth Prigozy. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001, pp. 48-56.

"The Magazine Market," in The Book History Reader , ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. London and New York : Routledge, 2002, pp. 269-76. Reprinted from American Authors and the Literary Marketplace (1988).

"William Styron's Sophie's Choice ," American Writers Classics , vol. 2, ed. Jay Parini. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004, pp. 251-65.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professional Author," Oxford Historical Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald , ed. Kirk Curnutt. New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004, pp. 49-68.

"Dreiser and the Profession of Authorship," Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser , ed. Leonard Cassuto and Clare Virginia Eby. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004, pp. 15-29.

 

Recent Selected Articles in Scholarly Journals

"Fair Copy, Authorial Intention, and `Versioning,'" Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship , 6 (1994), 81-89.

"Book History and Biography," Publishing Research Quarterly , 10 (Fall 1994), 72-83.

"Styron in Paris ," Sewanee Review , 103 (Spring 1995), 231-46.

"The Scholarly Editor as Biographer," Studies in the Novel , 27 (Fall 1995): 295-303.

"William Styron at Duke, 1943-44," Southern Literary Journal , 28 (Fall 1995): 5-18. Special Styron issue.

"Book History at Penn State ," Scholarly Publishing , 27 (April 1996): 127-34. Revised version repr. as "The Book History Program at Penn State ," Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte 8 (1998):365-71.

"Fitzgerald's Posthumous Literary Career," Scholarly Publishing 28 (January 1997): 92-101.

"Prospects for the Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald," Resources for American Literary Study 23 (1997): 147-58.

"Almost a Masterpiece," Humanities (NEH), February 2000: 14-20. About Fitzgerald's Trimalchio .

"Annotating Mr. Fitzgerald," American Scholar , Spring 2000: 78-87. Repr. in Documentary Editing 22 (Sept. 2000): 54-60.

"The Composition and Publication of Sister Carrie ," on DreiserWebSource (Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Univ. of Pennsylvania ): http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/dreiser. April 2000.

"Josephine Baker, Petronius, and the Text of ` Babylon Revisited'" (with Christa E. Daughtery), F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 (2003): 3-15.

"Ginevra and Scott, Their Romance," Princeton University Library Chronicle 65 (2004): 13-42.

"Interpreting a New Fitzgerald Letter," Princeton University Library Chronicle 65 (2004): 43-50.

 

Media Appearances (selected)

National Public Radio (Dreiser, Styron, and Fitzgerald); PBS television (Fitzgerald's Trimalchio and a documentary on his life); A&E Biography (Fitzgerald's life); BBC (documentary on The Great Gatsby ); PBS Book Channel (for Styron biography).

 

Forthcoming

“Fitzgerald to Ober: New Letters from the Crack-Up Period,” forthcoming in the Princeton University Library Chronicle , Spring 2007. 37 pp. in typescript.

Chapter on "Authorship and the Literary Marketplace" for vol. 4 of A History of the Book in America . 5 vols. Chapel Hill , NC : UNC Press. Sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and NEH. 22 pp. in TS. One of two lead chapters for this volume.

"Composition and Publication," in New Approaches to Teaching The Great Gatsby, ed. Nancy VanArsdale and Jackson Bryer. New York : Modern Language Assoc., 2007. 13 pp. in typescript.

“ Tender Is the Night , Jazzmania, and the Ellingson Matricide,” in Twentieth-Century Readings of

Tender Is the Night, ed. William Blazek and Laura Rattray. Liverpool , UK : Liverpool University Press; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 23 pp. in typescript.

 

Honors, Grants, and Awards (selected)

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Research Tools and Editing Program, October 1978-September 1979, for work on the Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition.

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, June-August 1981, for work on Dreiser.

Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1981-82, for work on a history of professional authorship in America .

Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography, University of Pennsylvania , Spring 1983.

American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1983-84, for work on a history of professional authorship in America .

Guggenheim Fellow, 1985-86, for study of the interrelationships and cross-influences between the British and American publishing industries since 1840.

Fulbright Senior Research Award, United Kingdom . From the Council for International Exchange of Scholars for study at Cambridge University, 1985-86; held concurrently with the Guggenheim Fellowship above.

Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University , November 1985-July 1986. Elected Life Fellow, April 1987.

Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Pennsylvania State University , 1987-

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, July-August 1988, for research on a biography of William Styron.

Fulbright Senior Teaching Award in American Literature, University of Liège , Belgium , October 1989-February 1990.

Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for a Distinguished Essay on Textual Scholarship, for "Editorial Theory and the Act of Submission," PBSA (1989). Awarded by the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York , April 1991.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, June-July 1991, for work on a biography of William Styron.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1994-95, for completion of the biography of William Styron.

Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome , June-July 1994, for research on the Styron biography.

American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1997, for work on an edition of Fitzgerald's Trimalchio .

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1998-99, for completion of the edition of Trimalchio.

Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University . Awarded March 1998.

Life Member, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, New York , April 2005.

 

Links to Selected Articles

"The Scholarly Editor as Biographer," Studies in the Novel , 27 (Fall 1995): 295-303:

"Annotating Mr. Fitzgerald," American Scholar , Spring 2000: 78-87:

"The Composition and Publication of Sister Carrie ," on DreiserWebSource (Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Univ. of Pennsylvania ):

 

Course Descriptions

English 501

Materials and Methods of Research

English 501 is an introduction to the teaching of English as a profession, with special attention to the choices that face graduate students who are entering our program. We'll read materials about the profession—about pedagogy, scholarship, and department citizenship. Graduate students have an uncomfortably nebulous status: they are students, to be sure, but many of them are simultaneously beginning as teachers, and they are all expected to act and think like professionals. We'll discuss this “doubtful middle state.” We will have tutorials in library skills and archival research; we'll also hear from members of the department about their scholarly work and their literary interests. Former students from our program who are “out there” in the profession will visit us and discuss their experiences. Each student in this seminar will produce an annotated bibliography, a conference proposal, and a conference-length paper for presentation.

English 574

Double Texts and Double Meanings in the 20th-Century American Novel

In this seminar we will examine some American novels of the twentieth century which exist in more than one text. I've published editions of three of these: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt ; Trimalchio/The Great Gatsby . Other examples include Tender Is the Night ; Black Boy/American Hunger ; The Wild Palms/If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem ; All the King's Men ; Look Homeward, Angel ; The Jungle ; Sartoris/Flags in the Dust . All of these "second" texts were published by scholars/critics/editors, after the authors' deaths. What is the legitimacy of such enterprises? How are they received by the academic establishment? By the popular press? How do the editions published by scholars differ from alternate texts published by the authors themselves during their lifetimes, as with John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor or Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities ? We'll branch out and discuss other works that exist in two or more texts: Lear, Great Expectations, Melambrosia/The Voyage Out, Treatise on the Gods , the New York Edition texts of Henry James--and much poetry. Partly we'll be concerned with practicalities. Can double texts be taught to undergraduates? How might the information discovered by the scholar/editors be brought to the undergrad classroom?

 

English 530

The Literature of Biography and Autobiography

 

This will be a seminar in C20 American autobiography, with texts by such authors as Dreiser ( An Amateur Laborer ), Mencken ( Newspaper Days ), Wharton ( A Backward Glance ), Fitzgerald ( The Crack-Up ), Hemingway ( A Moveable Feast ), Wright ( Black Boy/American Hunger ), Mary McCarthy ( Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ), William Styron ( Darkness Visible ), Mary Karr ( The Liars' Club ), and several others. We'll discuss the line between fiction and memoir and will take up the question of how influential an important autobiography ( A Moveable Feast , for example) can be on later critics and biographers. The seminar should be useful to both literature students and to MFA candidates. Seminar members will write one interpretive paper on a personal memoir and, in the second paper, will produce a memoir of their own. We'll also examine some of the emerging body of secondary literature on autobiography and discuss possible outlets for criticism and interpretation of memoirs. Finally we'll talk about courses for undergraduates that can be developed around memoirs and other nonfiction writing.