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A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the ''how-to''s'' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an unedited document, through to the established academic planning a team-enterprise, multi-volume re-editing of a canonical author. Explicitly, this Handbook does not aim to produce a linear treatise telling its readers how they ''should'' edit. Instead, it provides them with a thematically ordered collection of insights drawn from the practical experiences of a symposium of editors. Many implicit areas of consensus on good practice in editing are recorded here, but there are also areas of legitimate disagreement to be charted. The Handbook draws together a diver

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Introduction; Before editing; Editing: principles and practice; Digital editing; Case studies

A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780367667726
      978-0367667726
      ISBN-10 036766772X
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Library and information sciences Writing and editing guides

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the ''how-to''s'' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an unedited document, through to the established academic planning a team-enterprise, multi-volume re-editing of a canonical author. Explicitly, this Handbook does not aim to produce a linear treatise telling its readers how they ''should'' edit. Instead, it provides them with a thematically ordered collection of insights drawn from the practical experiences of a symposium of editors. Many implicit areas of consensus on good practice in editing are recorded here, but there are also areas of legitimate disagreement to be charted. The Handbook draws together a diver

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Before editing; Editing: principles and practice; Digital editing; Case studies

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