Despite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies through the comparison of geographically diverse publications of texts serving as documentary co-archives of emergence. To make this case I document the two very different versions of Jennifer Egan’s first-published collection of fiction, Emerald City (1993 and 1996), charting the interpretational consequences of her editorial processes within that early work. Until the embargo expires, a version is available on the author's personal website at https://eve.gd/2019/07/06/textual-scholarship-and-contemporary-literary-studies-jennifer-egans-editorial-processes-and-the-archival-edition-of-emerald-city/

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文字奖学金和当代文学研究：詹妮弗·伊根的编辑过程和《翡翠城》档案版

尽管在文学研究中有很强的文本学术血统，但当代文学的研究却常常避开这种方法，原因是没有足够的档案库来充分理解刚刚出版的作品的产生。在本文中，我主张通过比较作为新兴的文献共同档案的地理上各异的出版物，转向当代文学研究领域的文本学术。为了说明这一点，我记录了詹妮弗·埃根（Jennifer Egan）首次出版的小说集《翡翠城》（Emerald City，1993年和1996年）的两个截然不同的版本，并记录了她在早期作品中的编辑过程所产生的解释性后果。在禁运期满之前，可在作者的个人网站https：// eve上获得一个版本。