Variants is the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Its editors are H. T. M. van Vliet and Peter Robinson. Although Variants will have a European focus, it will include articles from scholars from anywhere in the world. Variants is distributed free to all full and institutional members of ESTS: you can join here.

The first number of Variants will include papers from speakers at the 2001 Leicester colloquium, and other articles:

Hans Gabler	Ulysses 1984 Û An Edition of its Time and for the Future
David Parker	The Quest of the Critical Edition
Bodo Plachta	Change of Generation Û Change of Frame of Reference. Which Direction Will Scholarly Editing Take in Germany?
Peter Shillingsburg	Manuscript, Book, and Text in the 21st Century
Dirk van Hulle	Variants: ÎerronymousÌ intentions from Joyce to Danielewski
H. T. M. van Vliet	Electronic Editions: New Solutions for Old Editing Problems or Old Wine in New Bottles?
Peter Robinson	What is an Electronic Critical Edition?
Marcus Walsh	Go figure: metaphors of textuality
Alberto Blecua	Defending neolachmannianism: On the Palacio Manuscript of La Celestina
César Chaparro Gómez	Sánchez de las BrozasÌ translation into Latin of some early Castilian octaves. Study and Textual-criticism Notes
Paul Eggert	Canonical works, Complicity and Bibliography: a Case-study
Julia Briggs	Hope Mirrlee’s ‘Paris’: towards the electronic editing of a modernist poem
Shlomo Berger	Editing Pre-modern Yiddish and the ÏAbsenceÓ of Text
Reviews section	Edited by Dirk Van Hulle: includes reviews of Jim Mays’ edition of The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Loizeaux and Fraistat Reimagining Textuality; Jean-Louis Lebrave and Almuth Grésillon, eds. Ecrire aux xviie et xviiie siècles: Genèsés de textes littéraires et philosophiques ; Paolo dÌIorio and Daniel Ferrer, eds. Bibliothèques dÌécrivains; H. J. Jackson Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books; Vicent Martines LÌedició filològica de textos; Miguel Ángel Pérez Priego, Introducción general a la edición del texto literario; VÃctor Martínez-Gil, coord. LÌedició de textos: història i mètode; Vincent Deane, Daniel Ferrer, Geert Lernout, eds. The ÎFinnegans WakeÌ Notebooks at Buffalo; Bernhard Fetz and Klaus Kastberger, eds. Von der ersten zur letzten Hand: Theorie und Praxis der literarischen Edition; Susan Hockey Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice; C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, eds. Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange; Domenico Fiormonte and Jonathan Usher, eds. New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications; Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, ed. Image-based Humanities Computing; Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age; Hans Gustaf Rålamb En Swensk Adelsmans Äfwentyr ed. Mats Malm; C. J. L. Almqvist Smaragdbruden ed. Bertil Romberg; Jerome McGann radiant textuality, literature after the world wide web; Paulius Subacius Tekstologija: Teorijos ir Praktikos Gaires.