The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing

This volume of essays addresses the practical implications of theoretical issues in a variety of texts from Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde.

List of contents

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the theory and practice of text-editing Ian Small and Marcus Walsh; 1. D. H. Lawrence: problems with multiple texts John Worthen; 2. Editing Johnson's Dictionary: some editorial and textual considerations Anne McDermott and Marcus Walsh; 3. 'Creeping into print': editing the letters of John Clare Mark Storey; 4. Towards a mobile text Philip Brockbank; 5. Rectifying Shakespeare's Errors: romance and farce in bardeditry Charles Whitworth; 6. Victorian editors of As You Like It and the purposes of editing Russell Jackson; 7. Bentley our contemporary: or, editors, ancient and modern Marcus Walsh; 8. The editor as annotator as ideal reader Ian Small; James T. Boulton: publications 1951-91; Index.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ian Small (Editor), Marcus Walsh (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2014
• EAN: 9780521401463
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40146-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 464 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics