Van Hulle's Genetic Criticism is an annotated handbook to the method, offering useful typologies of texts and variants, modes of classification, and a survey of interpretive strategies that can be used to engage manuscripts, drafts, and other traces of composition...this carefully constructed book provides the kind of up-to-date survey that has been missing from English scholarship.
Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the University of Oxford. He directs the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET), and the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. He is the editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (Michigan, 2004), Modern Manuscripts
(Bloomsbury, 2014), The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge, 2015), the Beckett Digital Library, and several editions in the MLA award-winning Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.