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10 Tanselle: Introduction to Scholarly Editing (2002)
scholarly editions; the syllabus is meant to supply short lists of recommended readings, supplemented
by more extensive unevaluative chronological lists, which students are encouraged to browse in as a way
of gaining a sense of the development and literature of the field. Although the preponderance of the
materials cited are in English, many of them make reference to literatures in other languages; and the
syllabus can serve as a guide to treatments of principles and procedures that are applicable to the editing
of writings from any period or country. This latest version of the syllabus is reproduced here in the form
in which it was distributed to my class; it is thus presented as a working document, which it was
intended to be, and has not been subjected to the kind of systematic checking and reconsideration that
would underlie a more formal publication.
New York, November 2002 G.T.T.
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