The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing

Essays in Honour of James T. Boulton

Marcus Walsh editor Ian Small editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Jun '06

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

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.The modern published editions in which we read the great literary works of the distant and recent past almost invariably embody the work of a textual editor. Recent literary theory has called into question most of the assumptions on which the practice of textual editing has historically depended. Notions of authorial intention, authority, the status of annotation and commentary, the relationship between 'literary' and non-literary works (such as letters and dictionaries), and hence the concept of literature itself, are central to this debate. This volume of essays, written by practising textual editors and scholars, addresses the practical implications of these theoretical issues, taking a variety of texts as examples for the particular editorial problems they pose. The works of authors as various as Shakespeare and John Clare, Samuel Johnson and D. H. Lawrence, Milton and Oscar Wilde are invoked to demonstrate the practical basis of an editorial discipline which requires theoretical sophistication but resists reduction to any single theory.

ISBN: 9780521027052

Dimensions: 215mm x 138mm x 18mm

Weight: 303g

232 pages