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Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text: 28 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 28) - Softcover

Brewer, Charlotte

 
9780521024020: Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text: 28 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 28)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521024021 ISBN 13: 9780521024020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This 1996 book is an account of the editions of Piers Plowman which have appeared since 1550.

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Review

"The volume is outstanding for the wealth of evidence Brewer brings to the topic. I find this a penetrating and provocative book. I think Brewer forces into the center of discussion the variety of ways inwhich editors have often forgotten...the varying assumptions that underlie their efforts at retrieving an author's ipsissima verba. Brewer's volume stands...as an impressive plea for both editorial conciousness and conscientiousness." Ralph Hanna, Speculum

"What Brewer demonstrates...are the ways in which general editorial theories are implicated in historical contexts and, more particularly, in which views on the authorship of Piers Plowman and the number and character of its versions are implicated in one another." An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies

Book Description

The fifty-plus manuscripts of Piers Plowman have always posed a puzzle to scholars. This 1996 book is an account of the editions of the poem which have appeared since 1550, examining the circumstances in which the editions were produced, the lives and intellectual motivations of the editors, and the relationship between one edition and the next.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521024021
ISBN 13 
9780521024020
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
480