Scholars and gentlemen : Shakespearian textual criticism and representations of scholarly labour, 1725-1765 / Simon Jarvis.

Author
Jarvis, Simon [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Description
ix, 234 pages ; 23 cm

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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 unprecedentedly 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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. The Culture of Scholarship in Early Eighteenth-Century England
    • 2. The Idea of a Settled Language and the Instability of Gentlemanly Editing
    • 3. The Venal and the Vain: The Attack on Gentlemanly Editing
    • 4. Lewis Theobald: The Specialist Scholar and his Textual-Critical Practice
    • 5. The 'Art of Criticism': Shakespearian Editing as the Display of Comprehensive Taste and Learning
    • 6. Johnson's Authorities: The Professional Scholar and English Texts in Lexicography and Textual Criticism
    • 7. Johnson's Theory and Practice of Shakespearian Textual Criticism
    • Conclusion: Textual Criticism and Enlightenment.
    ISBN
    • 0198182953 ((acid-free paper))
    • 9780198182955 ((acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    94038660
    OCLC
    31241731
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