Textual Scholarship: An Introduction

by David C. Greetham

Overview

First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815317913
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/1994
Series:	Reference Library of the Humanities Series , #1417
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	582
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Finding the Text: Enumerative and Systematic Bibliography 2 Making the Text: Bibliography of Manuscript Books 3 Making the Text: Bibliography of Printed Books 4 Describing the Text: Descriptive Bibliography 5 Reading the Text: Paleography 6 Reading the Text: Typography 7 Evaluating the Text: Textual Bibliography 8 Criticizing the Text: Textual Criticism 9 Editing the Text: Scholarly Editing Appendix I: Pages from the Shakespeare First Folio Appendix II: Some Types of Scholarly Edition

Editorial Reviews

The author is founder of the Society for Textual Scholarship. He writes to emphasize the continuities in the several parts of textual scholarship and to present the field in terms of a single narrative--a sequence from the discovery and enumeration of the text, to the history of its production, to its transcription and rendering into another medium (the modern typeset page), to its editing and its elucidation by annotation and commentary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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