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The Twentieth Century Has Been Called 'the Golden Age Of The Modern Manuscript,' A Time When The Historical Value Of Early Manuscripts As A Record Of A Writer's Thought Processes Came To Be Fully Recognized. Drawing On The Critical Tools Of French Genetic Criticism, Modern Manuscripts Explores The Development Of Early 20th Century Literary Texts, From Source Texts And Early Notes, Through Successive Draft Manuscripts To Publication And Successive Editions. Historicizing These Modernist Processes Of Writing, Dirk Van Hulle Contrasts These Twentieth Century Manuscripts With The Development Of Charles Darwin's Text For On The Origin Of Species, Itself A Formative Intellectual Influence On Modern Writing. Exploring The Writings Of Such Writers As Joyce, Woolf And Beckett, This Is An Important Study That Will Open Up New Avenues Of Thought For Scholars Of Modernist Literature, Material Culture And Book History-- Explores The Development Of Modernist Manuscripts And Historicizes These Writing Processes In Comparative Studies Of The Texts Of Darwin's 'origin Of Species.'-- Introduction: Marginalia, Manuscripts And The Modernist Mind -- 1. Prologue: 'avante-texte' Of The Origin Of Species -- 2. Exogenesis: Darwin's Books And Notes -- 3. Endogenesis: Drafting The Origin Of Species -- 4. Epigenesis: The Paper Fossils Of Publishing -- 5. Epilogue: Narrativizations Of The Genesis And Dysteleology -- 6. Prologue: Beyond The 'inward Turn' -- 7. Exogenesis: Writers' Libraries And The Extended Mind -- 8. Endegenesis: Creative Undoing, Doubt And Decision Making -- 9. Epigenesis: The Sense Of 'unending' -- Epilogue: Digital Manuscripts -- Conclusion: Manuscript Research And Enactive Cognition. Dirk Van Hulle. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 247-265) And Index.