Editing Nineteenth-Century Texts / / John Robson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Robson, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Barnes, Warner,; Bowers, Fredson,; Robson, John M.,; Sanders, Charles Richard,; Weinberg, Bernard,; Wolff, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (156 p.)

As R.J. Schoeck explained in his introduction to the first volume in this series, a group at the University of Toronto began in 1965 to plan annual conferences on editorial problems. Our first conference (October 1965), dealing with the sixteenth century, was followed by a second in November 1966, out of which the present volume has grown. Our experience of these two justifies Professor Schoeck's hopeful assessment of the value of meetings "at which scholars actively at work upon editorial tasks could come together for a free discussion of their work, learning from each other's experience, pooling their common intellectual resources, and seeking out expert opinion and counsel." Some ninety scholars attended the second conference, which featured library displays, a reception, dinner and lunch discussions, as well as the formal sessions, and we are emboldened to say that this is about the optimum number for such conferences. There were amply sufficient interests and attitudes, yet not too many for useful and frank discussion, and there was room for interested graduate students from the area. Few came away from the sessions without having learned something of immediate value and without having been prompted to further hard thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Old Wine in New Bottles: Problems of Machine Printing -- Charting the Golden Stream: Thoughts on a Directory of Victorian Periodicals -- Editing Balzac: A Problem in Infinite Variation -- Editing the Carlyle Letters: Problems and Opportunities -- Principles and Methods in the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill -- Nineteenth-Century Editorial Problems: A Selective Bibliography -- Members of the Conference -- Index