Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice - Hardcover

Hunter, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230008070 ISBN 13: 9780230008076

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts dating 1550-1800. It explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced and indicates the implications of this for their editorial treatment, giving practical advice on how texts should be prepared and presented. It will be invaluable to all wishing to learn more about textual editing, whether they are putative editors or simply users of editions who wish to understand them better.

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Review:

'Michael Hunter's impressive and welcome book is not only conciliatory but shrewd, intellectual and tightly focused. Most of all, it is generous, both to trained and to untrained editors, allowing them to learn not only how to resolve their differences with each other but with the principles of the editions they produce. Editing Early Modern Texts would make a marvellous textbook for any course in editing or the history of the book. Hunter reminds us how much fun textual scholarship and editing can be, which is a wonderful accomplishment in itself.'
- Grace Ioppolo, Journal of British Studies
 
'Editing Early Modern Texts, always thoughtful and well informed, opens out the attractions of the appropriate and feasible in a way that will make it a wonderful starting point for beginning or would-be editors, and a useful resource for those already working in the field.'
- Tom Lockwood, The Library

Book Description:

Provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of textual editing, with special reference to texts dating 1550-1800

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0230008070
• ISBN 13: 9780230008076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 183