LAR5330

Bibliography and textual scholarship

Not offered in 1998

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives At the completion of this subject students should be able to produce bibliographical descriptions of complex printed books of the period of hand printing; be able to assess published arguments based on bibliographical evidence; and have an understanding of the procedures of textual scholarship, including scholarly editing.

Synopsis A study of physical bibliography, with emphasis on those aspects affecting the transmission of printed texts; analytical and descriptive bibliography; and techniques of textual scholarship.

Assessment Weekly exercises: 100%

Recommended texts

Bowers F Principles of bibliographical description any edition
Gaskell P A new introduction to bibliography St Paul's, 1995
Padwick E W Bibliographical method James Clarke, 1969