This repository contains the LaTeX version of Variants 19, an issue of Variants, the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, published in December 2025. This version is purely regarded as a backup, a showcase of how Variants issues are designed in LaTeX, and as a point of reference for formatting rules and special cases mentioned in the varianTeX wiki. It is not meant as an authoritative version of the issue's contents whatsoever. Some minor changes may have been made in a final proofreading round that have not been included in this repository. For an authoritative version of the contents of this issue, please refer to the journal's official website. There, the official versions of all essays, reviews, paratext, etc. in this issue are made freely available in HTML and downloadable PDF formats.
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This issue is titled Authors and Their Drafts in Context, and was published in December 2025. It was edited by Wout Dillen (General Editor), Elsa Pereira (Associate Editor), and Stefano Rosignoli (Review Editor), with special thanks to our Assistant Editors Zsófia Fellegi and Adelle Hay. For an introduction to the issue's contents and publication process, please refer to the Editor's Preface.
The issue includes the following contributions:
- Editors' Preface | Wout Dillen, Elsa Pereira, and Stefano Rosignoli
- Ventures Towards an Authorial Avant-texte: From Print to Digital Environment | Franz Johansson
- On a Sketch of the Gulf of Napels. Considerations on the Mythological System of Ugo Foscolo's Inni alle Grazie | Daniela Shalom Vagata
- The Author as Reader: Modernist Marginalia and Authors' Libraries between Exogenesis and Intertextuality | Dirk Van Hulle
- ESTS 2023 (Canterbury). Authorship and Editing | Rory Loughnane
- The Author Husband, the Publisher Wife, and the Humble Servant Editor, or A Scholar Chasing a Sparrow | Dovilė Gervytė
- A Hermeneutics of Authorial and Editorial Integrities in _The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot | Jūratė Levina
- Textual Circumstances and Textual-Critical Method: Nicholas Love's Mirror and Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection | Michael G. Sargent
- Wading Through Memories: Creative Concurrence and Recurrence in Suzanne Malherbe's Peter and Madonna and the Memoir Notes | Kelly Frost
- A Nexus of Worlds: Stephen King's Concurrent Works on IT, The Talisman, and The Tommyknockers | Vincent Neyt
- Samuel Beckett. Play / Comédie and Film: A Digital Genetic Edition. Ed. Olga Beloborodova and Vincent Neyt; and Olga Beloborodova. The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Play / Comédie and Film | Erik Tonning
- Samuel Beckett. Company / Compagnie: A Digital Genetic Edition. Ed. Georgina Nugent-Folan and Vincent Neyt; and Georgina Nugent-Folan. The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Company / Compagnie | Catherine Fahy
- Samuel Beckett. Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas: A Digital Genetic Edition. Ed. James Little and Vincent Neyt; and James Little. The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas | Patrizi Fusella
- Sakari Katajamäki and Veijo Pulkkinen, eds. Genetic Criticism in Motion: New Perspectives on Manuscript Studies | James Little
- Torquato Tasso, Aminta. Ed. Davide Colussi and Paolo Trovato | Lorenzo Carpanè
- Alan Galey, Ellen Forget and Brendan Allen, eds. “ApertureScience.com: A Critical Edition" | Steven E. Jones
- A Word of Thanks to Our Peer Reviewers | Wout Dillen and Elsa Pereira
This issue was typeset by Wout Dillen with the help of Elsa Pereira, Zsófia Fellegi and Adelle Hay, using the varianTeX LaTeX template.