The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing

SOPHISTICATED: THOUGHT-PROVOKING: USEFUL: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1985) Printing unstated, NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, strikingly handsome NEW cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in on EXCELLENT acid-free unblemished archival paper * 8.75" x 5.62" x 0.75", 0.42 kg, x+221 (231) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: The modern published editions in which we read the great literary works of the distant & 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 & commentary, the relationship between literary & non-literary works (such as letters & dictionaries), & hence the concept of literature itself, are central to this debate. This volume of essays, written by practicing textual editors & 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 & John Clare, Samuel Johnson & D.H. Lawrence, Milton & Oscar Wilde are invoked to demonstrate the practical basis of an editorial discipline which requires theoretical sophistication but resists reduction to any single theory. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.…