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18 Part 1: Selected Introductory Readings � Tanselle: Introduction to Scholarly Editing (2002)
Fredson Bowers, "Greg's 'Rationale of Copy-Text' Revisited," Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 90-161.
G.T. Tanselle, "External Fact as an Editorial Problem," Studies in Bibliography 32 (1979): 1-47.
Reprinted in his Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979), pp. 355-402; and Textual Criticism and
Scholarly Editing (1990), pp. 72-118.
G.T. Tanselle, "Textual Criticism and Literary Sociology," Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 83-143 (see
esp. pp. 140-43).
F3. CRITICAL TEXTS: TREATMENT OF ACCIDENTALS
(See also section F2 immediately above and Part 3 below.)
Fredson Bowers, "Old-Spelling Editions of Dramatic Texts," in Studies in Honor of T.W. Baldwin, ed.
D.C. Allen (1958), pp. 9-15.
Fredson Bowers, [Review of Yale Edition of Samuel Johnson], Modern Philology 61 (1964): 298-309.
Reprinted in his Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing (1975), pp. 375-91.
Hershel Parker, "Regularizing Accidentals: The Latest Form of Infidelity," Proof 3 (1973): 1-20.
Phillip Harth, "The Text of Dryden's Poetry," Huntington Library Quarterly 63 (2001-2): 227-44. [Review
of The Poems of John Dryden, ed. Paul Hammond, vols. 1-2 (1995).]
Arthur Brown, "The Rationale of Old-Spelling Editions of the Plays of Shakespeare and His
Contemporaries: A Rejoinder," Studies in Bibliography 13 (1960): 69-76.
Peter L. and Miriam J. Shillingsburg, "Editing and the Oxford English Dictionary," Editorial Quarterly
2 (1975): 8-9.
John Bush Jones, "Victorian 'Readers' and Modern Editors: Attitudes and Accidentals Revisited," Papers
of the Bibliographical Society of America 71 (1977): 49-59.
Bruce Mitchell, "The Dangers of Disguise: Old English Texts in Modern Punctuation," Review of English
Studies n.s. 31 (1980): 385-413.
Donald Hall, "Robert Frost Corrupted," Atlantic Monthly, March 1982, pp. 60-64.
G.B. Shand with Raymond C. Shady (eds.), Play-Texts in Old Spelling (1984). [See especially S.
Schoenbaum, "Old-Spelling Editions: The State of the Art," pp. 9-26; Robert Kean Turner,
"Accidental Evils," pp. 27-33; Randall McLeod, "Spellbound," pp. 81-96 (reprinted from
Renaissance and Reformation n.s 3.1 [1979]: 50-65); and David Bevington, "Editorial Indications
of Stage Business in Old-Spelling Editions," pp. 105-12.]
N.E. Osselton, "Spelling-Book Rules and the Capitalization of Nouns in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries," in Historical & Editorial Studies in Medieval & Early Modern English, for Johan
Gerritsen, ed. Mary-Jo Arn and Hanneke Wirtjes, with Hans Jensen (1985), pp. 49-61.
Fredson Bowers, "Regularization and Normalization in Modern Critical Texts," Studies in Bibliography
42 (1989): 79-102.
M.B. Parkes, Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West (1992).
Mary-Jo Arn, "On Punctuating Medieval Literary Texts," Text 7 (1994): 161-74.
Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry (eds.), Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning
on the Literary Page (2000). [See especially John Leonard, "Mark, Space, Axis, Function: Towards
a (New) Theory of Punctuation on Historical Principles"; Anne C. Henry, "The Re-mark-able Rise
of '...': Reading Ellipsis Marks in Literary Texts"; Kathryn Sutherland, "Speaking Commas / Reading
Commas: Punctuating Mansfield Park"; and Ros King, "Seeing the Rhythm: An Interpretation of
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