Portraits and reviews

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Information & Library Science Library

Call Number
Z1003.8 .T37 2015
Status
Available

Summary

"This volume brings together a selection of the biographical sketches and reviews that G. Thomas Tanselle has written since 1959. Taken together they show how a biographical approach can serve to characterize a whole field--in this case, the world of books and bibliographical and textual scholarship. Because the pieces gathered here deal with major figures and landmark works, along with representative (if less famous) ones, covering the wide spectrum of bibliography, the collection provides a picture of what was going on in the scholarly book world of the past half-century. The twenty-eight portraits comprise accounts of, or tributes to, collectors, booksellers, librarians, scholarly editors, publishers, bibliographical scholars, literary and historical scholars, and authors. The Reviews section consists of forty-two pieces, mostly book reviews but also including some responses to essays, introductions to anthologies, and retrospective assessments, plus several bibliographies, bibliographical reference works, books on book collecting, and scholarly editions. Other items involve bookcloth, textual theory, book preservation, and the antiquarian book trade. The pieces in both sections of the book sometimes have an autobiographical element, for the author has known many of the people whose lives and works are taken up here"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

[I] Portraits -- Floyd Dell -- B.W. Huebsch -- Jerrold Nedwick -- Harry Hayden Clark -- Frederic G. Melcher -- Alfred Kazin -- Fredson Bowers -- Peggy Christian -- Gordon N. Ray -- Morris Gelfand -- Mary Hyde, Viscountess Eccles -- Robert L. Nikirk -- John Espey -- William H. Scheide -- Ruth Mortimer -- Harrison D. Horblit -- Richard Colles Johnson -- Vera Brodsky Lawrence -- Anthony Rota -- Harrison Hayford -- James G. Nelson -- John Carter -- Jo Ann Boydston -- Trevor Howard-Hill -- Sue Allen -- Nancy Hale -- William Matheson -- Carl and San Woodring -- [II] Reviews -- Jackson's Records of a bibliographer -- Stevenson's The problem of the Missale speciale (1969) -- Esdaile's Manual -- Editions of eighteenth-century fiction -- The David Lewis bibliographies -- Gaskell's New introduction -- The editing of Royall Tyler -- Bowers's editions of Hawthorne and Crane -- White's editions of Sherwood Anderson -- Evans's Shakespeare and Spevack's Concordance (1975) -- The bookman's glossary -- The beginnings of ABHB -- A gathering of book-collecting books -- Bowers's collected essays -- Gaskell's From writer to reader -- Glaister's Glossary -- Introduction to books and society in history -- Response to Sutherland on publishing history -- Gabler's edition of Joyce's Portrait -- Bowers's Principles -- Viscomi's Blake -- West's edition of Dreiser's Jennie gerhardt -- Tomlinson and Masters's Bookcloth -- The footnote demarginalized -- Emily Dickinson as an editorial problem -- Introduction to Grolier 2000 -- Reproductions and deaccessioning -- The authenticity of electronic texts -- The librarians' double-cross -- The world as archive -- The work of D.F. McKenzie -- Foreword to electronic textual editing -- The British antiquarian book trade -- McMurtry's books -- Chartier's Inscription and erasure -- Chaudhuri's The metaphysics of text -- Darnton's The case for books -- The Halcyon booklets -- Writing the history of electronic books -- McKitterick's Old books, new technologies -- Needham's Galileo makes a book -- Vander Meulen's Where angels fear to tread.

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