Editing lives essays in contemporary textual and biographical studies in honor of O M Brack, Jr.

ContentsSkip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend Jerry BeasleyPrint Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father’s and My Own Matthew BrackList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Jesse G. SwanPart I: Textual Studies1 Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle Loren Rothschild2 Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions James E. May3 Learning from Don Bilioso’s Adventures: Visualizing a Critical Edition of the Printed Works of John Arbuthnot Walter H. Keithley4 The Solicitation in Two Acts: James Robinson Planché’s Vampires on Stage, in Color, and under Cover Jennifer M. SantosPart II: Biographical Studies5 Samuel Parr’s Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography Robert DeMaria, Jr.6 Samuel Johnson’s Shakespearean Exit: Emendation and Amendment Gordon Turnbull7 Searching for the Invisible Man: The Images of Francis Barber Michael Bundock8 Alceste: Tobias Smollett’s Early Career Leslie Chilton9 Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II Martine W. Brownley10 Swift’s Politics Reconsidered Thomas Kaminski11 The Work of a Professional Biographer: Oliver Goldsmith’s The Life of Richard Nash, ESQ Christopher D. JohnsonPart III: Edition12 Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi: “une petite histoire” Translated and edited by Peter Sabor Coda, “But when I come, let me have the benefit of your advice, and the consolation of your company”: The Career, with a Listing of Publications, of O M Brack, Jr. Jesse G. SwanBibliography About the Contributors Index