Where\u27s Your \u3ci\u3eReal\u3c/i\u3e Book? : Textual Editing and the Culture Wars

Here\u27s the view from a professor of English at a technological university where the PhD is given in engineering and sciences. Where the Humanities & Arts department is the second-largest department on campus, though we offer only the Bachelor\u27s degree. Where even our multidisciplinary department is split by culture wars. I am a proud alumnus of Camp Edit (Class of 1980). Although I do not work full-time at an editorial project, I hope that my experience is somewhat representative of what faces many documentary editors. [In fact, having seen drafts of my colleagues\u27 remarks, I think you\u27ll detect a similar angst afflicting us all.