The subtextual reincarnation of Voltaire and Rousseau. (Francois-Marie Arouet, Theodore Rousseau)

American Scholar | March 22, 1998| | Copyright

Editors are notoriously the humblest underlaborers among scholars, their lives' work--discreetly camouflaged in prefaces, footnotes, and appendices--more often consulted than read, and virtually ignored by the general public. Editors of correspondence, in scavenging mainly among documents unintended for publication, seem doubly removed from the world of original scholarship, their transcriptions commanding interest, if at all, mainly because of the light they shed on the deeper writings or broader careers of their authors. Working subtextually, in small print, they are ...

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