Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship

Name: Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship
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ISBN: 9780521730297

ISBN-10: 0521730295

ISBN-13: 9780521730297

Edition: 2012

Authors: Neil Fraistat, Julia Flanders

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As more and more of our cultural heritage migrates into digital form and as increasing amounts of literature and art are created within digital environments, it becomes more important than ever before for us to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear, engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created, shaped and transmitted to us. They outline the theory behind studying texts in many different forms and offer case studies demonstrating key methodologies underlying the vital processes of editing and presenting texts. Through their multiple perspectives they demonstrate the centrality of textual…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Julia Flanders is Director of the Women Writers Project in the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library.



Introduction: textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness




A history of textual scholarship




Anglo-American editorial theory




Continental editorial theory




Late twentieth-century Shakespeares




Apparatus, text, interface: how to read a printed critical edition




The politics of textual scholarship




Fearful asymmetry




What is a book?




Orality




Manuscript textuality




Picture criticism: textual studies and the image




Track changes: textual scholarship and the challenge of the born digital



Coda: why digital textual scholarship matters



Further reading


Index