Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Donald H. Reiman
- Part One
- Chapter 1: Why Study Textual Editing and Criticism?
- Chapter 2: Textual Transmission
- Chapter 3: Textual Criticism and Kinds of Editions
- Part Two
- Theoretical Statements
- A. E. Housman from “The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism”
- W. W. Greg, “The Rationale of Copy-Text”
- James Thorpe, “The Aesthetics of Textual Criticism”
- Joseph Grigely, “The Textual Event”
- Leah Marcus, “The Shakespearean Editor as Shrew-Tamer”
- G. Thomas Tanselle, from “Editing without a Copy-Text”
- Textual-Critical Essays
- Peter W. M. Blayney, from The First Folio of Shakespeare
- Randall McLeod, “Gon. No more, the text is foolish”
- Ralph Hanna, Jr., “Producing Manuscripts and Editions”
- Charles E. Robinson, “Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority”
- Part Three
- Chapter 1: Working With Editions
- Jane Austen, from Mansfield Park
- Daniel DeFoe, from Moll Flanders
- Herman Melville, “Art”
- William Shakespeare, from Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello
- Emily Dickinson, [“Safe in their alabaster chambers”]
- Chapter 2: Working With Documents
- Elizabeth Cary, from The Tragedie of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry
- Phillis Wheatley, “On the Death of the Reverend Dr. Sewell”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from Frankenstein
- Geoffrey Chaucer, “Truth”
- Marianne Moore, “Poetry”
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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