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Bibliography

Editorial methodology, rationale, and standards

1. Eclectic textual editing methodology

Bowers, Fredson.  Bibliography and Textual Criticism.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1964.
----------. Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1975.
----------. Principles of Bibliographic Description.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949; rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962.
----------.  Textual and Literary Criticism.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
----------.  “Textual Criticism,” in The Aims and Methods of Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures.  2nd edition. Edited by James Thorpe.  New York: MLA, 1970: 29–54.
Gaskell, Philip.  A New Introduction to Bibliography.  New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
----------.  From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.
Tanselle, G. Thomas.  “Textual Scholarship.”  In Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures.  Edited by Joseph Gibaldi.  New York: MLA, 1981, 29–52.
May 29, 2008 9:05 AMcle, 1950–1985.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988.
----------.  A Rationale of Textual Criticism.  PMay 29, 2008 9:05 AMMay 29, 2008 9:05 AMMay 29, 2008 9:05 AMa -->May 19, 2008 3:04 PMal Instability and Editorial Idealism.” Studies in Bibliography, 49 (1996), 1-60.
----------. Literature and Artifacts. CharlottesviMay 19, 2008 3:04 PM8.
----------. “Literary Editing,” in Literary and Historical Editing, ed. George L. Vogt and John Bush Jones (1981), 35-56.  Reprinted as “Texts of Documents and Texts of Works,” in Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing (1990) 3-23. 

2. Copy-text rationale
Bowers, Fredson.  “Current Theories of Copy-Text, with an Illustration from Dryden.” Modern Philology, 48 (1950–51): 12–20.
----------.  “McKerrow’s Editorial Principles for Shakespeare Reconsidered.” Shakespeare Quarterly, 6 (1955): 309–24.
----------.  “The Method for a Critical Edition.” In On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Library, 1955. 
----------.  “Established Texts and Definitive Editions,” Philological Quarterly, 41 (1962): 1–17.
----------.  “Some Principles for Scholarly Editions of Nineteenth-Century American Authors,” Studies in Bibliography, 17 (1964), 223–28.
----------.  “Practical Texts and Definitive Editions.”  In Two Lectures on Editing. Charlton Hinman and Fredson Bowers.  Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1969, 21–70.
May 19, 2008 3:04 PMd Concepts of Copy-Text.” Library, 5th Series, 27 (1972): 81–115.
----------.  “The Ecology of American Literary Texts.&rdqMay 19, 2008 3:04 PMMay 19, 2008 3:04 PMMay 19, 2008 3:04 PM-------.  “Scholarship and Editing.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 70 (1976): 161–88.
----------.  “Greg’s ‘Rationale of Copy-Text’ Revisited.” Studies in Bibliography, 31 (1978): 146.
Greg, W. W.  “McKerrow’s Prolegomena Reconsidered.” Review of English Studies, 17 (1941): 139–49.
----------.  “The Rationale of Copy-Text.May 19, 2008 3:04 PM>36. Reprinted in his Collected Papers, ed. J. C. Maxwell. Oxford: Clarendon, 1966, 374–91.
----------.  The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare. 2nd ed.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1951
Greetham, D.C.  “Textual Scholarship,” in Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, ed. Joseph Bivaldi, (2nd ed., 1992), 103-37.
----------.  Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1992; rpt. 1994.
Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Greg’s Theory of Copy-Text and the Editing of American Literature.”  Studies in Bibliography, 28 (1975), 167-229.  Reprinted in his Textual Criticism Since Greg.

3. Authorial intention
Bowers, Fredson.  “Recovering the Author’s Intentions.” Pages, 1 (1976): 218–27.
----------.  “Authorial Intention and Editorial Problems.”  Text, 5 (1991): 49–62.
----------.   Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons, Literary Authority in American Fiction. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1984.
McLaverty, James.  “The Concept of Authorial Intention in Textual Criticism.”  The Library, Sixth Series, 6 (1984): 121–38.
Stillinger, Jack.  Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Tanselle, G. Thomas.  “The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention.” Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976): 167–211.

4. Manuscript editing traditions
Bowers, Fredson.  “Transcription of Manuscripts: The Record of Variants.”  Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976): 212–64.
Dearing, Vinton.  Principles and Practice of Textual Analysis.  Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California, 1974.
Greg, W. W.  The Calculus of Variants.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1927.
Maas, Paul.  Textual Criticism. Trans. Barbara Flower.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1958.
McKerrow, R. B.  Notes on Bibliographical Evidence for Literary Students and Editors of English Works of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Blades, East & Blades, 1914.
----------.  Prolegomena for the Oxford Shakespeare: A Study in Editorial Method. Oxford: Clarendon  1939.
Gabler, Hans Walter. ed. Contemporary German Editorial Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Reiman, Donald H.  The Study of Modern Manuscripts: Public, Confidential, and Private.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1993.
Tanselle, G. Thomas.  “The Editing of Historical Documents.”  Studies in Bibliography, 31 (1978): 1–56.
----------.  “Classical, Biblical, and Medieval Textual Criticism and Modern Editing.”  Studies in Bibliography, 36 (1983), 21–68.

5.  Collation and apparatus lists
De Tienne, André. “Selecting Alterations for the Apparatus of a Critical Edition.” TEXT, 9 (1996): 33–62.
Hinman, Charlton.  “Mechanized Collation at the Houghton Library.”  Harvard Library Bulletin, 9 (1955): 132–134.
Smith, Steven Escar.  “’Armadillos of Invention’: A Census of Mechanical Collators,” Studies in Bibliography 55 (2002): 133-170.
Tanselle, G. Thomas.  “Some Principles for Editorial Apparatus” in Tanselle’s Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979), 403–50. 
Zalewski, “Through the Looking Glass [The McLeod Collator],” Lingua Franca (June-July 1997):14-15.

6.  Modern Language Association Guidelines: The Center for Editions of American Authors and the Committee for Scholarly Editions
Bruccoli, Matthew.  “A Few Missing Words,” PMLA 86:4, (1971), Directory. 587-589.
Davis, Tom.  “The CEAA and Modern Textual Editing.”  Library, 5th Series 32 (1977): 61–74.
Greetham, D. C., ed. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research, Modern Language Association of America (New York, NY), 1995.
The Modern Language Association’s Committee for Scholarly Editions.  An Introductory Statement.  NY: MLA, April 1977; rpt. PMLA 92 (1977), 586–597.
The Modern Language Association’s Center for Editions of American Authors.  Statement of Editorial Principles and Procedures.  Revised edition. New York: MLA, 1972.
The Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.  Aims and Services of the Committee on Scholarly Editions.  NY: MLA, 1992.  Pamphlet.
Williams, William Proctor and Craig S. Abbott. An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies. 3rd Edition. New York: The Modern Language Association, 1999.

7. Critiques of eclectic textual editing
McGann, Jerome J.  A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism.  Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983; rpt. (pb.) Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1992.
----------.  The Textual Condition.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1991.
----------.  “What Is Critical Editing?”  Text 5 (1991): 15–30.
McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Parker, Hershel. “The Determinacy of the Creative Process and the ‘Authority’ of the Author’s Textual Decisions.”  College Literature, 10 (1983): 99–125.
 ----------. “Melville and the Concept of ‘Author’s Final Intentions.’” Proof, 1 (1971): 156–68.
----------.  “The ‘New Scholarship’: Textual Evidence and Its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics.”  Studies in American Fiction, 9 (1981): 181–197.
Peckham, Morse.  “Reflections on the Foundations of Modern Textual Editing,” Proof 1 (1971): 122-55.
Thorpe, James. Principles of Textual Criticism. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1972.

7.  Recent discussions of editing methodology
Bornstein, George.  Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page. New York: Cambridge Universtiy Press, 2001.
Bornstein, George, ed.  Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation.  Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1991.
Bornstein, George, and Ralph G. Williams, ed.  Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities.  Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1993.
Cohen, Philip, ed.  Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory.  Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991.
Greetham, D. C.  Theories of the Text.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
----------.  “Textual Forensics,” Special Topic: The Status of Evidence,  PMLA 111:1 (Jan. 1996) 32-51.
----------. Textual Transgressions: Essays toward the Construction of a Biobibliography, New York: Garland, 1998 . 
----------.  Textual Scholarship: An Introduction.  New York: Garland, 1992; rpt. 1994.
----------.  ed. The Margins of the Text. Ann Arbor: University Michigan Press, 1997.
----------. ed. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research, Modern Language Association of America (New York, NY), 1995. May 19, 2008 3:04 PM  The Reader in the Study of American Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982, rpt. 1984.
----------, “Reading Typos, Reading Archives,” College English 61.5 (May 1999): 584-590.
Myerson, Joel.  “Some Comments on the Bibliographical Concept of ‘Issue’,” South Central Review 5:1 (Spring 1988), 8-16.
Tanselle, G. Thomas, “The Prospect for Textual Criticism,” Raritan (Summer 2005):137-146
Shillingsburg, Peter.  Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 

8. Electronic textual editing
Bass, Randy.  “Story and Archive in the Twenty-First Century.”  College English 61.6 (Jul. 1999) 659-670.
Finneran, Richard J. The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996
Leitner, Gerhard, ed. New Directions in English Language Corpora: Methodology, Results, Software Developments. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
McGann, Jerome J. “Cultureand Technology: The Way We Live Now, What Is to Be Done?” New Literary History 36.1 (Winter 2005): 71-82.
----------.  “Literary Scholarship in the Digital Future,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 49.16 (13 December 2002): 387+.
----------. The Point is to Change It: Literature in the Continuing Present. Tuscaloosa: U. of Alabama Press, 2007 (forthcoming).
----------. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2001.
----------. The Scholar's Art. Literature and Scholarship in an Administered World. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2006.
Renear, Allen.  “Theory and Practice: The Textbase Methodology of the Brown University Women Writers Project,”, Creating a Literary Series: The Brown University Women Writers Project and the Oxford University Press "Women Writers in English, 1350-1850" Texts. South Central Review, 11 no. 2 (Summer 1994): 99-117.
Shillingsburg, Peter L.  Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age. 3rd Edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
----------.  From Gutenberg to Google:  Electronic Representations of Literary Texts.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006
Unsworth, John, “The Importance of Failure,” The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 3 no.2 (December, 1997).
Unsworth, John, Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemans, ed. A Companion to Digital Humanities, co-edited with Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. New York: Blackwells, 2004.
Unsworth, John, Lou Burnard and Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe. Electronic Textual Editing.  New York: MLA, 2006.