A Guide to Documentary Editing

For more than twenty years, A Guide to Documentary Editing has proven an invaluable tool for scholarly editors, editors-in-training, readers of documentary editions, and other students of American history and literature. This new, extensively revised edition of the Guide arrives in the midst of great change in the field. In addition to exploring fully the increasingly central role electronic technology plays in the editing process, this edition provides the most current treatment of the craft's fundamental issues. These include locating and collecting sources, transcribing source texts, conventions of textual treatment, dealing with nontextual elements, and preparing editions for publishers. The documentary-editing environment is more vibrant than ever, and the authors draw on this wealth of activity to include numerous examples of the Guide's principles in practice. The most innovative aspect of this latest edition of the Guide is a new digital component. Users may access the entire contents online through a dedicated Web site available exclusively to purchasers of the print edition. In addition to offering the convenience of easy online access, this Web edition will include hyperlinks to relevant literature and will act as an archive for material from earlier editions. Most important, it will be periodically revised and updated, to ensure a Guide that is always current with best practice. Each edition of the Guide has become the standard text for scholarly editors, whether their focus is correspondence, journals, diaries, financial records, professional papers, or unpublished manuscripts. This print/digital edition presents this essential guide in its most dynamic and useful form yet. Published in association with the Association for Documentary Editing Mary-Jo Kline, author of the two previous editions of A Guide to Documentary Editing, has served as Associate Editor of The Papers of John Jay and The Papers of John Adams and Editor of The Papers of Aaron Burr. Susan H. Perdue has served as a research assistant at The Papers of James Madison, Associate Editor at The Papers of John Marshall, and is currently Senior Associate Editor at The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series.

Foreword
What Is Documentary Editing? Where Did It Come From?	p. 1
Early American Documentary Editing	p. 4
Statesmen's Papers and "Historical" Editing	p. 6
Editing the Nation's Literature: The Americanization of Copy-Text	p. 8
The Evolution of Distinctive Methodologies	p. 11
The 1950s: The Critical Reception of Historical Editing	p. 13
The 1960s and 1970s: Editing and Relevance	p. 13
The MLA and Private Writings	p. 17
The Beginning of Interdisciplinary Evaluation	p. 19
A Period of Reexamination: The 1980s and 1990s	p. 22
The Reshaping of Scholarly Editing and Publication by Electronic Technology	p. 25
A Guide to Editing in a New Millennium	p. 27
Suggested Readings	p. 31
Initiating an Editorial Project	p. 35
The Guide's Electronic Component	p. 36
Old Lessons in a New Century	p. 36
What Kind of Edition Will It Be?	p. 38
The Control File and Its Descendants	p. 44
Suggested Readings	p. 50
Putting the Control File to Work	p. 52
The Search for Documents	p. 52
Cataloging and Control	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 84
Suggested Readings	p. 85
Identifying Source Texts	p. 87
Authentication and Attribution	p. 88
Types of Documentary Materials	p. 90
Horrible Exceptions to These Simple Rules	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 109
Suggested Readings	p. 109
Transcribing the Source Text	p. 112
Who Does the Transcribing?	p. 114
General Rules for Transcription	p. 115
Special Transcription Methods	p. 117
Transcription Forms and Control	p. 118
Factors Affecting Transcription Methods	p. 119
Conclusion	p. 139
Suggested Readings	p. 140
The Conventions of Textual Treatment	p. 141
The Bases of Scholarly Editing: Standardizing, Recording, and Emending	p. 144
Photographic and Typographic Facsimiles	p. 146
Editorial Texts Requiring Symbols or Textual Annotation	p. 151
Diplomatic Transcriptions	p. 161
The Middle Ground: Inclusive Texts and Expanded Transcriptions	p. 163
Clear Text	p. 173
Electronic Publication	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 178
Suggested Readings	p. 179
From Transcriptions to Editorial Texts	p. 181
Putting Transcriptions to Work	p. 181
Exceptions to Some General Rules	p. 187
Translations	p. 203
Current "Good Practice"	p. 209
Conclusion	p. 212
Suggested Readings	p. 213
Nontextual Elements of an Edition	p. 215
Select Editions and Comprehensive Records	p. 215
Organization	p. 219
Contextual Editorial Contributions	p. 227
Citation of Sources	p. 249
Preparation of Informational Notes	p. 254
Supplements to Informational Annotation	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 258
Suggested Readings	p. 259
Publishing the Edition	p. 263
Book Editions: From Hot Type to No Type	p. 264
Microforms	p. 267
Electronic Editions	p. 268
Documentary Editors and Their Publishers	p. 273
Front and Back Matter	p. 274
CSE Inspections	p. 280
Final Establishment of the Documentary Text	p. 281
The Index	p. 283
After Publication	p. 288
Suggested Readings	p. 289
Form Letters	p. 291
References	p. 295
Index	p. 319
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