Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915

• Main Author: Salzman, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature-Philosophy.; British literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Literary Theory.; British and Irish Literature.

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers, from the early nineteenth centur...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Redeeming the Editorial Tradition
• 2. Alexander Dyce
• 3. Constructing a Perfected Shakespeare Text
• 4. Amateurs, Professionals, and the Second Half of the Century
• 5. Scientific Professionals and Learned Amateurs
• 6. Conclusion: Forgetting the Past.