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评论数字版，以及介绍和各种评论。该版本基于已故的大卫·伍利博士(伦敦，后来的西澳大利亚珀斯)和安格斯·罗斯教授(布赖顿的苏塞克斯大学)的文本和历史研究，他们在20世纪80年代受委托准备新的两卷本乔纳森·斯威夫特散文。这一版本在斯威夫特学术的历史上第一次呈现了一本根据新英美目录学的目录学和文本原则建立的文本，但从未完成。罗斯和伍利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。斯威夫特提供了伍利的校对，补充了他和罗斯的文本和历史介绍，但两者都在根据新的证据需要时进行了修改。此外，在线.SWIFT的编辑们对所有文本都提供了他们自己的评论。一方面，它们总结了自1745年以来斯威夫特批评的历史；另一方面，它们在斯威夫特图书馆和(可证明的)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。对于这样的事业，Ehrenpreis中心是理想的设备：它的SWIFT批评收藏已经非常接近完成，它几乎完全复制了SWIFT的图书馆并以相同的印记阅读提供了完美的工作条件。当相关的新研究发表时，在线SWIFT的进展模式将使其有可能更新其各种组件--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.