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Author Lerer, Seth, 1955- author.

Title Error and the academic self : the scholarly imagination, medieval to modern / Seth Lerer
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 325 pages)
Contents Introduction : the pursuit of error : philology, rhetoric, and the history of scholarship -- Errata : mistakes and masters in the early modern book -- Sublime philology : an elegy for Anglo-Saxon studies -- My Casaubon : the novel of scholarship and Victorian philology -- Ardent etymologies : American rhetorical philology, from Adams to de Man -- Making mimesis : exile, errancy, and Erich Auerbach -- Epilogue : Forbidden Planet and the terrors of philology
Summary -- ACLA, 3/11/05
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English philology -- History
Scholarly publishing -- Great Britain
Errors and blunders, Literary -- History
English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Error -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
English literature -- Theory, etc.
English philology
Error
Errors and blunders, Literary
Intellectual life
Scholarly publishing
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231507479
023150747X