Scholarly Editing

by Greetham, D. C.

• ISBN13: 9780873525619
• ISBN10: 0873525612
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

This Collection of twenty-six essays, written by acknowledged experts in literary studies, surveys the history of scholarly editing, describes the major research in a variety of disciplines, summarizes the resources available to scholars, and analyzes the issues currently facing textual editors. The book begins with an overview of scholarly editing, followed by four essays on the long tradition of editing the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics. The next cluster of essays proceeds through the major periods of British and American literature, from medieval to modern, further subdividing the Renaissance and the nineteenth century by genre and including a chapter devoted to Shakespeare. Additional essays cover other European literatures: French (Old French and early modern), Italian, medieval Spanish, German, and Russian. The concluding essays discuss representative non-European literatures -- Arabic and Sanskrit -- and the "nonliterary" editing of folk literature in various languages. Each chapter includes a history of scholarly editing in the field, a citation of exemplary editions, and an introduction to a recommended list of further readings.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Varieties of Scholarly Editing	p. 9
The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)	p. 33
The Greek New Testament	p. 60
Greek Literature: Antiquity to the Renaissance	p. 75
Classical Latin Literature	p. 95
Old English Literature	p. 149
Middle English Literature	p. 184
English Renaissance: Nondramatic Literature	p. 204
English Renaissance: Non-Shakespearean Drama	p. 231
Shakespeare	p. 253
Eighteenth-Century English Literature	p. 283
Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and Prose	p. 308
Nineteenth-Century British Fiction	p. 331
Colonial and Nineteenth-Century American Literature	p. 351
Twentieth-Century American and British Literature	p. 365
Old French Literature	p. 382
Early Modern French Literature	p. 417
Italian Literature	p. 438
Medieval Spanish Literature	p. 459
German Literature	p. 504
Russian Literature	p. 530
Arabic Literature	p. 546
Sanskrit Literature	p. 575
Folk Literature	p. 600
Subject Index	p. 627
Name and Title Index	p. 646
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