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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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.