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Author Loffman, Claire

Title A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Material readings in early modern culture.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Before editing; 1.1 Introducing archives; 1.1.1 Approaching the archives; 1.1.2 Catalogues and other finding aids; 1.1.3 Primum non nocere: handling special collections material; 1.1.4 Accessing hidden collections; 1.2 Planning and proposing an edition; 1.2.1 The uses of serendipity; 1.2.2 The evolutionary edition; 1.2.3 Getting started on proposing an edition; 1.2.4 A publisher's perspective; 1.3 Edition management and protocols
1.3.1 Organising a large editionAn early modern addendum; 1.3.2 The form of a documentary edition; 1.3.3 Edition management and protocols; 2 Editing: principles and practice; 2.1 Apparatus; 2.1.1 Introductions; 2.1.2 Annotations; 2.1.3 Images; 2.1.4 Textual apparatus and reader engagement; 2.1.5 Appendices; 2.1.6 Indexes; 2.2 Text: collation; 2.2.1 Collating copies of Renaissance texts; 2.2.2 Print collation; 2.3 Text: modernisation and translation; 2.3.1 To modernise or not to modernise?; 2.3.2 The problems with old-spelling editions; 2.3.3 In defence of old-spelling editions
2.3.4 Modernisation versus old-spelling for early modern printed prose2.3.5 Translations; 2.4 Text: arrangement and presentation; 2.4.1 Transcription; 2.4.2 The materiality of early modern letters; 2.4.3 Mise-en-page: editing early modern letters; 2.4.4 Mise-en-page: editing lyric poetry from manuscripts; 2.4.5 Variety in copy-text; 2.4.6 Edition defined by venue; 2.4.7 Ordering the epistolary: letters or correspondence?; 2.5 Unedited and oft-edited texts; 2.5.1 Whether and how to edit manuscript miscellanies; 2.5.2 The single-author edition and manuscript miscellanies
2.5.3 Editing oft-edited texts: annotating Shakespeare3 Digital editing; 3.1 Theory and practice; 3.1.1 Parting with 'much wee know': digital editing and the early modern text; 3.1.2 XML and the 'Archaeology of Reading'; 3.2 Online editions; 3.2.1 Digital XML-based editing: the case of Bess of Hardwick's letters; 3.2.2 Scriptorium: when to build a digital archive rather than a digital edition; 3.3 Social editing; 3.3.1 Social editing and the Devonshire Manuscript; 3.3.2 Annotation and the social edition; 4 Case studies; 4.1 On error; 4.2 On mess; 4.3 On ordering chronologically; 4.4 On media
4.5 On annotation as conversationBibliography; Index
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Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Phillips, Harriet
ISBN 9781317187936
1317187938