Description
Book SynopsisA 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 ContentsIntroduction; Before editing; Editing: principles and practice; Digital editing; Case studies
