Textual Scholarship: An Introduction

by Greetham,David C.

• ISBN13: 9780815317913
• ISBN10: 0815317913
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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), an appendix of illustrated types of scholarly editions with interpretive commentary, and a full index. The text is suitable for courses in research methods, critical editing, philology, paleography, manuscript studies, publishing, publishing history, and the history of the book and is an essential aid to graduatestudents in language and literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Illustrations	xv
Introduction	xv
Finding the Text: Enumerative and Systematic Bibliography	13	(34)
Making the Text: Bibliography of Manuscript Books	47	(30)
Making the Text: Bibliography of Printed Books	77	(76)
Describing the Text: Descriptive Bibliography	153	(16)
Reading the Text: Paleography	169	(56)
Reading the Text: Typography	225	(46)
Evaluating the Text: Textual Bibliography	271	(24)
Criticizing the Text: Textual Criticism	295	(52)
Editing the Text: Scholarly Editing	347	(26)
Appendix I: Pages from the Shakespeare First Folio	373	(10)
Appendix II: Some Types of Scholarly Edition	383	(36)
Selected Bibliography	419	(108)
Index	527