Note 2 to Chapter 6 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
D. F. McKenzie, particularly in The Sociology of Texts and Jerome McGann, particularly in A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, develop this idea, which owes much to the influence of ideas current in the so-called new historicism.
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