A Guide to Documentary Editing / Edition 3

by Mary-Jo Kline, Susan Holbrook Perdue, Roger A. Bruns, Association for Documentary Editing

Overview

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. 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. The online edition is available at http://gde.upress.virginia.edu.

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scholarly editors, whether their focus is correspondence, journals, diaries, financial records, professional papers, or unpublished manuscripts.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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813927275
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	10/22/2008
Edition description:	third edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

New edition of a guide which details every step of the editing process as practiced in the electronic information age<-->planning a project, organizing materials, evaluating and transcribing texts, applying textual and editorial conventions, and preparing the edition for the publisher. The author also comments on new forms of electronic documentary publication such as CD-ROMs, locally available text bases, and internet sites, and she updates the guide's survey of literature including document selection, annotation, and nonverbal sources. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

The first book of its kind . . . strongly recommended for all academic and research libraries.
—College and Research Libraries News

The Guide provides the editing profession with an intellectual headquarters and fulcrum; it will be quoted and discussed for many years to come.
—Louis Waddell, Journal of American History

I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about the work of documentary editors, thinking about initiating a documentary editing project, or using or thinking of using the fruits of documentary projects. It is a detailed, basic, generally descriptive but sometimes prescriptive how-to guide for the preparation of historical and literary manuscripts.
—Isis

From the Publisher

The Guide provides the editing profession with an intellectual headquarters and fulcrum; it will be quoted and discussed for many years to come.

Journal of American History - Louis Waddell

The first book of its kind . . . strongly recommended for all academic and research libraries.

College and Research Libraries News

I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about the work of documentary editors, thinking about initiating a documentary editing project, or using or thinking of using the fruits of documentary projects. It is a detailed, basic, generally descriptive but sometimes prescriptive how-to guide for the preparation of historical and literary manuscripts.

Isis