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批评电子版本，包括介绍和各种各样的评论。该版本是基于已故的大卫·伍利博士（伦敦，后来的珀斯，西澳大利亚）和安格斯·罗斯教授（布莱顿萨塞克斯大学）的文本和历史研究，他们在20世纪80年代被委托编写新的两卷本乔纳森·斯威夫特的散文。这个版本是为了呈现，这是斯威夫特学术历史上第一次，根据新英美书目的书目和文本原则建立的文本，从未完成。Ross和Woolley为他们的项目收集的材料现在已经提供给编辑，并将被利用并纳入新版本。斯威夫特呈现了伍利的整理，补充了他和罗斯的文本和历史介绍，但无论何时需要根据新的证据进行修订。此外，在线swift的编辑提供他们自己对所有文本的评论。一方面，这些概述了自1745年以来斯威夫特批评的历史；另一方面，他们解释和注释swift文本，在许多情况下是第一次，基于swift库和（可演示的）阅读经验。对于这样一项工作，Ehrenpreis中心拥有理想的设备：它的斯威夫特评论集几乎是完整的，它几乎完全复制了斯威夫特的图书馆和阅读相同的印记，提供了完美的工作条件。Online.Swift的进展模式将使它的各种组成部分——文本、介绍、注释——在相关的新研究发表时能够更新。

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.