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Part 1
SELECTED INTRODUCTORY READINGS
ON THE BASIC STEPS IN PREPARING AN EDITION
A. Introduction to Scholarly Editing
Fredson Bowers, "Textual Criticism and the Literary Critic," in Textual and Literary Criticism (1959),
pp. 1-34. Reprinted in his Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing (1975), pp. 296-325.
Bruce Harkness, "Bibliography and the Novelistic Fallacy," Studies in Bibliography 12 (1959): 59-73.
Reprinted in Bibliography and Textual Criticism, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Warner Barnes (1969),
pp. 23-40.
Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare," in Johnson on Shakespeare, ed. Arthur Sherbo (1968),
pp. 59-113.
A.E. Housman, "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism," Proceedings of the Classical
Association 18 (1922 [for August 1921]): 67-84. Reprinted in his Selected Prose, ed. John Carter
(1961), pp. 131-50; The Classical Papers of A.E. Housman, ed. James Diggle and F.R.D. Goodyear
(1972), pp. 1058-69; and Collected Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Christopher Ricks (1988),
pp. 325-39. Also reprinted in Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing, ed. Ronald Gottesman and
Scott Bennett (1970), pp. 1-16.
G.T. Tanselle, The History of Books as a Field of Study (1981). Reprinted in his Literature and Artifacts
(1998), pp. 41-55.
G.T. Tanselle, "Issues in Bibliographical Studies since 1942," in The Book Encompassed, ed. Peter
Davison (1992), pp. 24-36.
G.T. Tanselle, "Reflections on Scholarly Editing," Raritan 16.2 (Fall 1996): 52-64.
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B. Basic Distinctions and Principles
G.T. Tanselle, "The Nature of Texts," in his A Rationale of Textual Criticism (1989), pp. 11-38.
G.T. Tanselle, "The Varieties of Scholarly Editing," in Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research, ed. D.C.
Greetham (1995), pp. 9-32.
G.T. Tanselle, "Textual Scholarship," in Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and
Literatures, ed. Joseph Gibaldi (1981), pp. 29-52.
G.T. Tanselle, "Literary Editing," in Literary & Historical Editing, ed. George L. Vogt and John Bush
Jones (1981), pp. 35-56. Reprinted as "Texts of Documents and Texts of Works" in his Textual
Criticism and Scholarly Editing (1990), pp. 3-23.
Fredson Bowers, "Textual Criticism," in The Aims and Methods of Scholarship in Modern Languages and
Literatures, ed. James Thorpe (1963, 1970), pp. 29-54 [1970].
Bruce M. Metzger, "The Origins of Textual Criticism as a Scholarly Discipline," "Modern Methods of
Textual Criticism," and "The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism," in his The Text of the
New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (1964, 1968, 1992), pp. 149-55,
156-85, 207-46.
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