Portraits and reviews /

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....

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Main Author: Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2015.
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Table of 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.