What is Scholarly Editing?

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Published: Jan 13, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v15i2.35534
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Peter Shillingsburg
Loyola University, Chicago, ret.

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Scholarly Editing is distinguished here from all other editing by declaring the two rules that scholarly editing requires: to know and make known all relevant facts and to exercise informed judgment while following explicit principles for and details of the editorial work.


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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation
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For George Bornstein (August 25, 1941– February 2, 2021)

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Author Biography

Peter Shillingsburg, Loyola University, Chicago, ret.

Peter Shillingsburg was trained in the department from which the Center for Editions of American Authors was administered. He served as the first coordinator, and later Chairman, of the Committee on Scholarly Editions that replaced the CEAA. He wrote four books on textual criticism and scholarly editing: Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age, Resisting Texts, From Gutenberg to Google, and Textuality and Knowledge. He edited works by William Makepeace Thackeray. He directed the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at De Montfort University and held the Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He served as President of the Society for Textual Scholarship and received a life-time achievement award from the European Society for Textual Studies.