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It’s all done posthumously without the author’s permission. This is in April: [..]A note in the reissue of Thank You, Jeeves explained that publishers 'sought
by jelliclesfarm 3y ago
It’s all done posthumously without the author’s permission.
This is in April: [..]A note in the reissue of Thank You, Jeeves explained that publishers 'sought to edit, minimally, words that we regard as unacceptable to present-day readers'.
The warning adds that the changes ‘do not affect the story’ of the novel, which is the first full-length work to feature Jeeves and Wooster, who were portrayed by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in a 1990s ITV adaptation.
Edits were also made to last year's edition of Right Ho, Jeeves, which also contains a cautionary warning.
In the 1934 book, a racial term used to describe a ‘minstrel of the old school’ was culled.[..]
- bombcar 3y agoThe edits are what I don't like (and I suspect an author wouldn't like them even if he would have been willing to make those same edits if asked). An addition of the "Warner-Bros header" that basically states "the people who made this did some things we wouldn't do today, but they weren't bad people y'know" is much less objectionable. Especially when you consider it being done to seminal works that helped us begin to move past some racism such as Huck Finn, etc.
- jelliclesfarm 3y agoWould you rather have a world with a pollyanna’esque view of ‘whatever is politically correct for that decade’? Creatives have a process..story telling is many parts and has many characters and points of view. And expression and thoughts in the form of words and sentences and ideas. This is necessary for character development and storyline.