A Guide to Documentary Editing
Ms. Susan Holbrook Perdue, Mr. Roger A. Bruns (Foreword)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813927269
DDC: 808.027
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-10-30
Summary:
For more than twenty years, "A Guide to Documentary Editing" has
proven an invaluable tool for scholarly editors, editors-in-training,
readers of documentary editions, and other students of American
history and literature. This new, extensively revised edition of the
Guide arrives in the midst of great change in the field. In addition
to exploring fully the increasingly central role electronic
technology plays in the editing process, this edition provides the
most current treatment of the craft's fundamental issues. These
include locating and collecting sources, transcribing source texts,
conventions of textual treatment, dealing with nontextual elements,
and preparing editions for publishers. The documentary-editing
environment is more vibrant than ever, and the authors draw on this
wealth of activity to include numerous examples of the Guide's
principles in practice.The most innovative aspect of this latest
edition of the Guide is a new digital component. Users may access the
entire contents online through a dedicated Web site available
exclusively to purchasers of the print edition. In addition to
offering the convenience of easy online access, this Web edition will
include hyperlinks to relevant literature and will act as an archive
for material from earlier editions. Most important, it will be
periodically revised and updated, to ensure a Guide that is always
current with best practice.Each edition of the Guide has become the
standard text for scholarly editors, whether their focus is
correspondence, journals, diaries, financial records, professional
papers, or unpublished manuscripts. This print/digital edition
presents this essential guide in its most dynamic and useful form
yet.
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