The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship

by Edited by Neil Fraistat , Julia Flanders

• ISBN13: 9780521514101
• ISBN10: 052151410X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

As more and more of our cultural heritage migrates into digital form and as increasing amounts of literature and art are created within digital environments, it becomes more important than ever before for us to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear, engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created, shaped and transmitted to us. They outline the theory behind studying texts in many different forms and offer case studies demonstrating key methodologies underlying the vital processes of editing and presenting texts. Through their multiple perspectives they demonstrate the centrality of textual scholarship to current literary studies of all kinds and express the sheer intellectual excitement of a crucial scholarly discipline entering a new phase of its existence.

Table of Contents

Introduction: textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness

A history of textual scholarship

Anglo-American editorial theory

Continental editorial theory

Late twentieth-century Shakespeares

Apparatus, text, interface: how to read a printed critical edition

The politics of textual scholarship

Fearful asymmetry

What is a book?

Orality

Manuscript textuality

Picture criticism: textual studies and the image

Track changes: textual scholarship and the challenge of the born digital

Coda: why digital textual scholarship matters

Further reading

Index

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