From Writer To Reader - Studies In Editorial Method

Gaskell, Philip

ISBN 10: 019818171X / ISBN 13: 9780198181712

Published by Oxford University Press, 1978

About this Item

Cloth, dj, F/VG+xiv+268pp, b/w illustrations throughout, index, dustjacket spine faded, otherwise a fine copy. The method of establishing a critical text of a work of literature is explained by way of 12 examples, from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso to Tom Stoppard's Travesties. 850 grams.

Seller Inventory # 62648

Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Writer To Reader - Studies In Editorial Method
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019818171X
• ISBN 13: 9780198181712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 850 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature
  • Bibliography

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Synopsis

First edition. Most of the major works of English literature are readily available today only in versions that are sadly inadequate. There are few reliable specialist editions; much worse, the majority of the paperback texts of English and American authors that are sold in their millions to students and general readers are corrupt and misleading. This is as unnecessary as it is undesirable. By combining a critical judgement with an understanding of textual bibliography, an editor can establish a "critical text" that is as authoritative as the evidence allows, and can present it in the form best suited to the intended audience. The examples given in this book show how this may be done. Dr. Gaskell presents extracts from the early texts of twelve works of literature. He has chosen them not only because of their importance as works of art but also on account of the quantity and variety of the surviving textual evidence; and so by skillfully following each extract through its surviving stages from writer to reader he encompasses a variety of subjects and treatments. Jacket spine faded. xiv, 268 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..