Revision and Romantic Authorship

"Leader starts from the position that a preference for the earlier, if possible earliest, version is evidence of what he thinks of as a (false) Romantic notion....In contesting this view of the matter, Leader aligns himself with the modern critical school associated with the name of Jerome McGann and with his attack on what he calls 'the Romantic ideology'....Much of what they say I myself think erroneous, but Leader is not interested, here at any rate, in their new-historicist bullying; his point is simply that there is something false in the cult of the original unrevised version."Leader, Zachary is the author of 'Revision and Romantic Authorship' with ISBN 9780198186342 and ISBN 0198186347.