Manuscripts and texts : editorial problems in later Middle English literature : essays from the 1985 conference at the University of York / edited by Derek Pearsall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pearsall, Derek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.

English literature.

Manuscripts, English (Middle)--Editing--Congresses.

Manuscripts, English (Middle).

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Manuscripts--Congresses.

English literature--Middle English--Manuscripts.

Congresses and conventions.

English literature--Middle English.

Editing.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; Wolfeboro, N.H. : D.S. Brewer, 1987.

Contents:

Some sceptical observations on the editing of The awntyrs off Arthure / Rosamund Allen

Metrical problems in editing The legend of good women / Janet M. Cowen

Observations on the history of Middle English editing / A.S.G. Edwards

The case for a parallel-text edition / Dan Embree and Elizabeth Urquhart

Challenges of theory and practice in the editing of Hoccleve's Regement of princes / David C. Greetham

Problems of "best text" editing and the Hengwrt manuscripts of The Canterbury tales / Ralph Hanna III

The Hoccleve holographs and Hoccleve's metrical practice / Judith A. Jefferson

Theories and practices in the editing of the Chester cycle play-manuscripts / David Mills

The value of editing the Clerk's tale for the Variorium Chaucer / Charlotte C. Morse

Poet and scribe in the manuscripts of Gower's Confessio amantis / Peter Nicholson

Editing The wars of Alexander / Thorlac Turville-Petre

Editing for REED / Diana Wyatt.

ISBN:

0859912310 :

OCLC:

14240693