The Renaissance Text - Theory, Editing, Textuality (Hardcover)

This collection of essays focuses on the broad issues of Renaissance textuality, exploring such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; the complexities of extended textual histories; and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation. The volume is closely informed by developments in textual theory which have led to a probing interrogation of traditional understandings of the early modern textual world and how we should edit, disseminate and encounter the Renaissance text in our own time.