Divergent Authenticities: Editing Scottish Literary Texts: Introduction: How Editorial Theories Have Changed

Authors

Patrick G. Scott, University of South Carolina - ColumbiaFollow

Abstract

Reviews changing approaches to the editing of Scottish literary texts, from the dominance of the Greg-Bowers theory of copytext to the emergence of the Social Text theory associated with Mackenzie and McGann; illustrates the developments from a variety of major Scottish authors and scholarly editions (specifically Thomas Carlyle and Walter Scott); and concludes by discussing the critical implications of differing approaches to editing two frequently-taught Scottish works, Robert Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" and Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

Recommended Citation

Scott, Patrick G. (2013) "Divergent Authenticities: Editing Scottish Literary Texts: Introduction: How Editorial Theories Have Changed," Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. 39: Iss. 1, 3–14.
Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol39/iss1/3