The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them.

This volume contains a collection of the author’s life-long study (along with some new research written specifically for this book) of the text of 1-2 Kings,

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Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking pr

This book is the first comprehensive study of the basic principles that govern the editing of literary texts. The focus is on English and American literature, a