The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing: Essays in Honour of James T. Boulton » (1st Edition)

This volume of essays, written by practising textual editors and scholars, addresses the practical implications of theoretical issues, taking a variety of texts as examples for the particular editorial problems they pose.

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the theory and practice of text-editing Ian Small and Marcus Walsh;

1. D. H. Lawrence: problems with multiple texts John Worthen;
2. Editing Johnson's Dictionary: some editorial and textual considerations Anne McDermott and Marcus Walsh;
3. 'Creeping into print': editing the letters of John Clare Mark Storey;
4. Towards a mobile text Philip Brockbank;
5. Rectifying Shakespeare's Errors: romance and farce in bardeditry Charles Whitworth;
6. Victorian editors of As You Like It and the purposes of editing Russell Jackson;
7. Bentley our contemporary: or, editors, ancient and modern Marcus Walsh;
8. The editor as annotator as ideal reader Ian Small; James T. Boulton: publications 1951-1991; Index.