An Old-Spelling Critical Online-Edition of the Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, with Historical Introductions and Variorum Commentaries

Online.Swift的目标是提供乔纳森·斯威夫特散文作品的旧拼写关键数字版本，包括介绍和集注评论。该版本是基于已故的大卫伍利博士（伦敦，后来珀斯，西澳大利亚州）和安格斯罗斯教授（苏塞克斯大学，布莱顿）的文本和历史研究，他们在20世纪80年代被委托编写一个新的两卷本乔纳森斯威夫特散文版。这个版本是目前，在历史上第一次斯威夫特奖学金，文本建立根据书目和文本原则的新英美书目，并没有完成。罗斯和伍利为他们的项目收集的材料现已提供给编辑，并将被利用和纳入新版本。斯威夫特介绍了伍利的校勘，并补充了他和罗斯的文本和历史介绍，但无论何时都根据新的证据进行了修订。此外，Online.Swift的编辑会对所有文本提供他们自己的评论。一方面，这些作品总结了1745年以来斯威夫特文学批评的历史;另一方面，它们在斯威夫特图书馆和（可论证的）阅读经验的基础上，对斯威夫特文本进行了阐释和注释，在许多情况下是第一次。为了完成这项工作，埃斯比约中心拥有理想的设备：它收集的斯威夫特评论几乎是完整的，它几乎完全复制了斯威夫特的图书馆和阅读，这些都是完全相同的印记，提供了完美的工作条件。Online.Swift的"进行中“模式将使其能够在相关新研究发表时更新其各种组件-文本，介绍，注释。

The objective of Online.Swift is to provide an old-spelling critical digital edition of the Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, with introductions and variorum commentaries. The edition is based on the textual and historical researches of the late Dr David Woolley (London, later Perth, Western Australia) and Professor Angus Ross (University of Sussex, Brighton), who in the 1980s were commissioned to prepare a new two-volume edition of Jonathan Swifts prose. This edition was to present, for the first time in the history of Swift scholarship, a text established according to the bibliographical and textual principles of the New Anglo-American Bibliography and was never finished. The material collected by Ross and Woolley for their project has now been made available to the Editors and is to be utilized and incorporated into the new edition. Online.Swift presents Woolleys collations, supplemented by his and Rosss textual and historical Introductions yet both revised whenever called for in the light of new evidence. In addition, the Editors of Online.Swift provide commentaries of their own on all texts. On the one hand, these summarize the history of Swift criticism since 1745; on the other, they explicate and annotate Swifts texts, in many cases for the first time, on the basis of Swifts library and (demonstrable) reading experience. For such an undertaking, the Ehrenpreis Centre is ideally equipped: its collection of Swift criticism is very nearly complete, and its almost complete replica of Swift's library and reading in identical imprints provides perfect working conditions. The in progressu mode of Online.Swift will make it possible to update its various components - texts, introductions, annotations - whenever relevant new research is published.