Text 14: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

by W. Speed Hill (Editor), Edward M. Burns (Editor)

Volume 14 continues to offer international perspectives on textual scholarship, including contributions by Robert Adams, Nancy B. Black, Patrizia Botta, Gabrielle Dean, Dayton Haskin, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Geert Lernout, Jerome McGann, Marita Mathijsen, and R. G. Siemens, on topics ranging from Shakespearean apparatus to the editorial theory of electronic objects. Items under review include D. C. Parker's The Living Text of the Gospels and editions of Yeats, Eliza Haywood, Thomas De Quincey, and Theodore Dreiser.
W. Speed Hill is Professor of English, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

432 pages, Hardcover

First published May 29, 2002

About the author

After six years of contending with Parkinson's disease, W. Speed Hill died May 8, 2007.

Speed was internationally renowned in the field of textual editing, the discerning of the relative authenticity of manuscripts from times when copyrighting was unknown. His life's work was to lead a scholarly team in the creation of a multivolume compilation with commentary of the works of Richard Hooker, a wise and remarkable English Renaissance theologian.

Speed was associated with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and was co-founder of the Society for Textual Scholarship. He served as professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York until his retirement several years ago, after which he continued to lecture at academic societies. At a memorial service, former students, many now in academia, cited their gratitude for his help in their careers, their admiration for his intellect, and their pleasure in his wit.

A native of Lexington, Ky., Speed attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. He obtained his doctorate from Harvard. He is survived by Linda, his wife of 23 years; three children, Julie Beck, Christopher, and Madeleine; and a brother, Eugene.