Thomas Wolfe and his editors
Field's exhaustive, often tedious study should close the debate over the nature and extent of Edward Aswell's editing of the sprawling manuscript Wolfe gave him before his death in 1938. A meticulous comparison of the manuscripts in Harvard's Houghton Library with the published versions of The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and The Hills Beyond leads Field to conclude that Aswell was not, as some contend, the books' co-author. While he had to cut, discard, and alter to avoid libel and achieve coherence, he remained true to Wolfe's grand fictional design.
215 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1987 by University of Oklahoma Press · ISBN 9780806120959
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- Thomas Wolfe and his editors · University of Oklahoma Press · 1987 · ISBN 9780806120959 This page
- Thomas Wolfe and His Editors: Establishing a True Text for the Posthumous Publications · Univ of Oklahoma Press · 1987 · ISBN 9780585148199
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