Scholars and Gentlemen
Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 29 June 1995
- ISBN 9780198182955
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 223x144x19 mm
- Weight 436 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Among the earliest editors of Shakespeare were several of the eighteenth century's most powerful writers. Scholars and Gentlemen demonstrates how much was at stake for these writers in the editing of English texts. Drawing on sources from pamphlet wars and Pope's Duncaid to detailed analyses of editorial practice and Johnson's Dictionary, the book shows how central to the formation of British public literary culture were politically contested representations of scholarship.
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Among the earliest editors of Shakespeare were several of the eighteenth century's most powerful writers. Scholars and Gentlemen demonstrates how much was at stake for these writers in the editing of English texts.
Simon Jarvis examines not only eighteenth-century texts of Shakespeare, but also sources as disparate as Pope's Dunciad, eighteenth-century classical and scriptural editing, and Johnson's Dictionary to show the importance of politically contested representations of scholars and scholarship for the formation of British public literary culture. Offering an unprecedented detailed account of both editorial theory and philological practice during the period, the book throws new light on a wide variety of issues, from the debates over the possibility of a polite and settled national language to the epistemological and cultural presuppositions of editorial method.
Scholars and Gentlemen will interest not only students of eighteenth-century English literature, but also readers, editors, and critics of Shakespeare, and all those concerned with the theoretical implications of the reproduction of literary texts today.
Jarvis manages to combine minute textual detail with broad argument: he has written an excellent book for literary historians, bibliographers, and Shakespeareans...Jarvis has made a significant and timely contribution to 18th century Shakespearian studies...powerful and convincingly argued case.
