A cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare series
<p>The focus of this thesis is on editorial activity. The thesis aims to investigate the origins and development of the Arden series of Shakespeare editions (1899-2020). Each series, I argue, comprises multivocal editions that expose specific critical investments. Such critical priorities illu...
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| description | <p>The focus of this thesis is on editorial activity. The thesis aims to investigate the origins and development of the Arden series of Shakespeare editions (1899-2020). Each series, I argue, comprises multivocal editions that expose specific critical investments. Such critical priorities illustrate particular cultural, intellectual, and institutional pressures of their moment of production. A central argument is that many of the critical commitments in the Arden series are recursive, continuing to resurface, often in unexpected ways, in today’s critical climate. The three series as a whole provide a rich storehouse of editorial activity for future Arden editors, and the recent completion of the third Arden series offers a timely moment in which to tell the story of how the series began, how editorial thinking developed, and how a return to the foundations of the early Arden series offers a pathway to a richer understanding of the nature of editorial thinking in the current moment.</p>
<p>In its concern with both a series of important book-historical projects and their dominant critical assumptions, this approach takes inspiration from the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of Book History and particularly the concern with editorial ideologies developed by Margreta de Grazia and Leah S. Marcus in the 1990s. Key research questions include: how did each project come into being? What were their operating assumptions? What was their impact on the general readership? What were the commercial and intellectual pressures existing on those editions? As recent decades have made increasingly clear, the practice of editing remains far from a straightforward science. As this thesis argues, scholarly editing is an historically contingent activity shaped by a complex vectoring of cultural, intellectual, and institutional pressures that are inscribed within editions as products of their times.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5d15c0b0-cbbf-4bd1-b9f8-07280e497fe72024-06-17T11:38:21ZA cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare seriesThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:5d15c0b0-cbbf-4bd1-b9f8-07280e497fe7Textual editingEnglish Language and LiteratureShakespeareEnglishHyrax Deposit2024Fell, Cvan Es, BSmyth, ASmith, EMunro, L<p>The focus of this thesis is on editorial activity. The thesis aims to investigate the origins and development of the Arden series of Shakespeare editions (1899-2020). Each series, I argue, comprises multivocal editions that expose specific critical investments. Such critical priorities illustrate particular cultural, intellectual, and institutional pressures of their moment of production. A central argument is that many of the critical commitments in the Arden series are recursive, continuing to resurface, often in unexpected ways, in today’s critical climate. The three series as a whole provide a rich storehouse of editorial activity for future Arden editors, and the recent completion of the third Arden series offers a timely moment in which to tell the story of how the series began, how editorial thinking developed, and how a return to the foundations of the early Arden series offers a pathway to a richer understanding of the nature of editorial thinking in the current moment.</p> <p>In its concern with both a series of important book-historical projects and their dominant critical assumptions, this approach takes inspiration from the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of Book History and particularly the concern with editorial ideologies developed by Margreta de Grazia and Leah S. Marcus in the 1990s. Key research questions include: how did each project come into being? What were their operating assumptions? What was their impact on the general readership? What were the commercial and intellectual pressures existing on those editions? As recent decades have made increasingly clear, the practice of editing remains far from a straightforward science. As this thesis argues, scholarly editing is an historically contingent activity shaped by a complex vectoring of cultural, intellectual, and institutional pressures that are inscribed within editions as products of their times.</p> |
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| title | A cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare series |
| title_full | A cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare series |
| title_fullStr | A cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare series |
| title_full_unstemmed | A cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare series |
| title_short | A cultural history of the Arden Shakespeare series |
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