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Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In this book, Joseph Dane critiques the use of material evidence in
studies of manuscript and printed books by delving into accepted
notions about the study of print culture. He questions the
institutional and ideological presuppositions that govern medieval
studies, descriptive bibliography, and library science. Dane begins
by asking what is the relation between material evidence and the
abstract statements made about the evidence; ultimately he asks how
evidence is to be defined. The goal of this book is to show that
evidence from texts and written objects often becomes twisted to
support pre-existing arguments; and that generations of
bibliographers have created narratives of authorship, printing,
reading, and editing that reflect romantic notions of identity,
growth, and development. The first part of the book is dedicated to
medieval texts and authorship: materials include Everyman,
Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, the Anglo-Norman Le Seint
Resurrection, and Adam de la Helle's Le Jeu de Robin et Marion. The
second half of the book is concerned with abstract notions about
books and scholarly definitions about what a book actually is:
chapters include studies of basic bibliographical concepts ("Ideal
Copy") and the application of such a notion in early editions of
Chaucer, the combination of manuscript and printing in the books of
Colard Mansion, and finally, examples of the organization of books
by an early nineteenth-century book-collector Leander Van Ess. This
study is an important contribution to debates about the nature of
bibliography and the critical institutions that have shaped its
current practice.
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