Textual Scholarship An Introduction

Name: Textual Scholarship An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780815317913

ISBN-10: 0815317913

ISBN-13: 9780815317913

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: David C. Greetham

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Originally published in 1992 in hardcover, this paperback features a newly corrected text and a revised and expanded bibliography, which is updated to 1994. The book is the first to address the entire spectrum of textual scholarship: enumerative and research bibliography; descriptive and analytical bibliography ; paleography and typography; historical and textual bibliography; textual criticism and textual theory; scholarly editing Designed for editors, literary and textual critics, and students, this historical and methodological survey is richly illustrated with line drawings and photographs. There is a bibliography of scholarship (including a list of standard editions in various fields),…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 584
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.35" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

David Greetham is Distinguished Professor of English, Interactive Technology, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate School and founder of the interdisciplinary Society for Textual Scholarship. He is author of Theories of the Text and Textual Transgressions: Essays toward the Construction of a Biobibliography.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Illustrations


Introduction



Finding the Text: Enumerative and Systematic Bibliography



Making the Text: Bibliography of Manuscript Books



Making the Text: Bibliography of Printed Books



Describing the Text: Descriptive Bibliography



Reading the Text: Paleography



Reading the Text: Typography



Evaluating the Text: Textual Bibliography



Criticizing the Text: Textual Criticism



Editing the Text: Scholarly Editing


Appendix I: Pages from the Shakespeare First Folio


Appendix II: Some Types of Scholarly Edition


Selected Bibliography


Index