The Myth of Print Culture : Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method.
Dane, Joseph A.
The Myth of Print Culture : Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Studies in Book and Print Culture Series . - Studies in Book and Print Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Myth of Print Culture -- 1.1 Print and Scribal Culture (Eisenstein, Johns, Love) -- 1.2 The Coming of the Book and the Departure of Bibliographical Inquiry -- 2 Twenty Million Incunables Can't Be Wrong -- 2.1 The Calculus of Book-Copies -- 2.2 The Quantification of Evidence -- 2.3 Note on the Relative Popularity of Juvenal and Persius -- 3 What Is a Book? Classification and Representation of Early Books -- 3.1 The Cataloguing of Early Book Fragments -- 3.2 Type Measurement and Facsimile Representation -- 4 The Notion of Variant and the Zen of Collation -- 4.1 Charlton Hinman and the Optical Collator -- 4.2 The Logic and Description of Press Variation -- 5 Two Studies in Chaucer Editing -- 5.1 The Presumed Influence of Skeat's Student's Chaucer on Manly and Rickert's Text of the Canterbury Tales -- 5.2 The Electronic Chaucer and the Relation of the Two Caxton Editions -- 6 Editorial Variants -- 6.1 Early Terence Editions and the Material Transmission of the Text -- 6.2 Richard Bentley: Milton and Terence -- 6.3 Malone Verbatim: The Description of Editorial Procedures -- 6.4 W.W. Skeat, Chatterton's Rowley, and the Definition of the True Poem -- 7 Bibliographical Myths and Methods -- 7.1 The Curse of the Mummy Paper -- 7.2 The History of Irony as a Problem in Descriptive Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Principal Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history.
9781442681798
Books-History.
Bibliography-Methodology.
Criticism, Textual.
Electronic books.
Z4 .D26 2003
The Myth of Print Culture : Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Studies in Book and Print Culture Series . - Studies in Book and Print Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Myth of Print Culture -- 1.1 Print and Scribal Culture (Eisenstein, Johns, Love) -- 1.2 The Coming of the Book and the Departure of Bibliographical Inquiry -- 2 Twenty Million Incunables Can't Be Wrong -- 2.1 The Calculus of Book-Copies -- 2.2 The Quantification of Evidence -- 2.3 Note on the Relative Popularity of Juvenal and Persius -- 3 What Is a Book? Classification and Representation of Early Books -- 3.1 The Cataloguing of Early Book Fragments -- 3.2 Type Measurement and Facsimile Representation -- 4 The Notion of Variant and the Zen of Collation -- 4.1 Charlton Hinman and the Optical Collator -- 4.2 The Logic and Description of Press Variation -- 5 Two Studies in Chaucer Editing -- 5.1 The Presumed Influence of Skeat's Student's Chaucer on Manly and Rickert's Text of the Canterbury Tales -- 5.2 The Electronic Chaucer and the Relation of the Two Caxton Editions -- 6 Editorial Variants -- 6.1 Early Terence Editions and the Material Transmission of the Text -- 6.2 Richard Bentley: Milton and Terence -- 6.3 Malone Verbatim: The Description of Editorial Procedures -- 6.4 W.W. Skeat, Chatterton's Rowley, and the Definition of the True Poem -- 7 Bibliographical Myths and Methods -- 7.1 The Curse of the Mummy Paper -- 7.2 The History of Irony as a Problem in Descriptive Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Principal Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history.
9781442681798
Books-History.
Bibliography-Methodology.
Criticism, Textual.
Electronic books.
Z4 .D26 2003