Textual bibliography – selected reading
recommended fundamental studies in textual scholarship
Jaques Barzun, On Writing, Editing and Publishing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
George Bornstein (ed), Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
Fredson Bowers, Textual and Literary Criticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
Fredson Bowers, Bibliography and Textual Criticism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.
Fredson Bowers, Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975.
Peter Davison, The Book Encompased: Studies in Twentieth Century Bibliography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Philip Gaskell, From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
Ronald Gottesman and Scott Bennett, Art and Error: Modern textual editing, London: Methuen, 1970.
D.C. Greetham, Textual Scholarship: An Introduction, New York: Garland, 1994.
John Lennard, But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
G. Thomas Tanselle, A Rationale of Textual Criticism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
G. Thomas Tanselle, Textual Criticism since Greg: A Chronicle, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987.
[NB! Greetham's excellent book Textual Scholarship contains a 106 page bibliography covering all aspects of the subject.]
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