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24 Part 2: A Concise Selection � Tanselle: Introduction to Scholarly Editing (2002)
B. Some Introductory Historical Surveys
Ernst Würthwein, Der Text des Alten Testaments (1952; translated from the 1973 edition by Erroll F.
Rhodes as The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica, 1979, 1994).
Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (1964,
1968, 1992). [See also his "History of Editing the Greek New Testament," Proceedings of the
American Philosophical Society 131 (1987): 148-58; and its later versions in Editing and Editors,
ed. Richard Landon (1988), pp. 47-66, and in Greetham (1995) below.]
L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin
Literature (1968, 1974, 1991).
E.J. Kenney, The Classical Text: Aspects of Editing in the Age of the Printed Book (1974).
Hans Zeller, "Struktur und Genese in der Editorik: Zur germanistischen und anglistischen
Editionsforschung," Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 5.19-20 (1975): 105-26.
Alfred Foulet and Mary Blakely Speer, "A Historical Orientation," in On Editing Old French Texts (1979),
pp. 1-39. [Supplemented by Speer's "Editing Old French Texts in the Eighties: Theory and Practice,"
Romance Philology 45 (1991): 7-43; see also her essay in Greetham (1995) below.]
G.T. Tanselle, "Classical, Biblical, and Medieval Textual Criticism and Modern Editing," Studies in
Bibliography 36 (1983): 21-68. Reprinted in his Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing (1990),
pp. 274-321.
A.S.G. Edwards, "Observations on the History of Middle English Editing," in Manuscripts and Texts, ed.
Derek Pearsall (1987), pp. 34-48. [See also his essay in Greetham (1995) below.]
Mary-Jo Kline, "Introduction," in her A Guide to Documentary Editing (1987), pp. 1-29.
G.T. Tanselle, Textual Criticism since Greg: A Chronicle, 1950-1985 (1987). [Reprints, on pp. 1-63,
"Greg's Theory of Copy-Text and the Editing of American Literature," from Studies in Bibliography
28 (1975): 167-229; on pp. 65-107, "Recent Editorial Discussion and the Central Questions of
Editing," from Studies in Bibliography 34 (1981): 23-65; and on pp. 109-54, "Historicism and
Critical Editing," from Studies in Bibliography 39 (1986): 1-46.] Supplemented by "Textual
Criticism and Literary Sociology," Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 83-143; and "Textual
Instability and Editorial Idealism," Studies in Bibliography 49 (1996): 1-60.
Donald Reiman, "Gentleman Authors and Professional Writers: Notes on the History of Editing Texts of
the 18th and 19th Centuries," in Editing and Editors: A Retrospect, ed. Richard Landon (1988),
pp. 99-136.
E.J. Kenney, "Great Britain: Latin Philology," in La filologia greca e latina nel secolo XX (Consiglio
Nazionale delle Recerche, 1989), pp. 619-49.
D.C. Greetham, "Criticizing the Text: Textual Criticism," in Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (1992),
pp. 295-346.
Emanuel Tov, The Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: An Introduction (trans. 1992).
D.C. Greetham (ed.), Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research (1995). [Contains surveys of the traditions
and accomplishments of textual work on Biblical, Greek, Latin, English, American, French, Italian,
Spanish, German, Russian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and folk literatures.]
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