The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing: Essays in Honour of James T. Boulton - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521401461 ISBN 13: 9780521401463

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

The modern published editions in which we read the great literary works of the distant and recent past almost invariably embody the work of a textual editor. Recent literary theory has called into question most of the assumptions on which the practice of textual editing has historically depended. This volume of essays, written by practicing textual editors and scholars, addresses the practical implications of these theoretical issues, taking a variety of texts as examples for the particular editorial problems they pose. The works of authors as various as Shakespeare and John Clare, Samuel Johnson and D. H. Lawrence, Milton and Oscar Wilde are invoked to demonstrate the practical basis of an editorial discipline that requires theoretical sophistication but resists reduction to any single theory.

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Book Description:

This volume of essays, written by practising textual editors and scholars, addresses the practical implications of theoretical issues in a variety of texts from Shakespeare to John Clare, Samuel Johnson to D. H. Lawrence, and Milton to Oscar Wilde.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521401461
• ISBN 13: 9780521401463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Small Ian, Walsh Marcus