Welcome to the Home of Digital Scholarly Editing at the London Rare Book School

Synopsis

Welcome to the London Rare Books School summer 2018 module on Digital Scholarly Editing (2-6 July). This week will be an intense look at the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, coupled with an intensive bootcamp on the fundamentals of creating digital editions.

Aims

• Grasp of the history, principles, and techniques of scholarly editing.

• Facility with transcribing documents in Markdown, HTML, and XML (using the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative).

• Your very own miniature digital critical edition of a literary document.

• Awareness of the problems and challenges of digital editions.

To access the course materials, follow this link.

To access the detailed outline, follow this link

Schedule

Day 1: Brief History of Scholarly Editing; The problem of the Copy-text; Transcription; Documentary Editing 1.

Day 2: Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); Documentary Editing 2.

Day 3: Eclectic editing; TEI continued.

Day 4: Genetic Text Editing; customising TEI.

Day 5: Editing Manuscript Images with TextLab; Transforming Editorial Data with R, XPath, and XSLT.

Course Reading list

(Other shorter readings will be found on the course github repository)

Bryant, John. The Fluid Text. U Michigan P, 2002.

Burnard, Lou. What is the Text Encoding Initiative? (Open Edition, 2014).

Gabler, Hans Walter. Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays [especially "Theorizing the Digital Scholarly Edition"] (Open Book, 2018).

Gaskell, Philip. From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method (Oak Knoll, 1978).

Gottesman, Ronald and Scott Bennett, eds. Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing (Indiana UP, 1970).

Greetham, David. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research (New York: MLA, 1995)

McGann, Jerome. A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (UP of Virginia, 1983).

––––. A New Republic of Letters (Harvard UP, 2014).

Parker, Hershel. Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons (Northwestern UP, 1984).

Tanselle, G. Thomas. "The Editing of Historical Documents," Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978), pp. 1–56.

Pierazzo, Elena. Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (Ashgate, 2015).

––––. Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices (Open Book, 2016).