Authorial Revision in Some Late-Medieval English Texts

Author / Editor
Pearsall, Derek.

Title
Authorial Revision in Some Late-Medieval English Texts

Published
A. J. Minnis and Charlotte Brewer, eds. Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 39-48.

Description
Surveys how editions of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and others have banished the notion of authorial revision from their textual methods and replaced it with attention to scribal practice, thereby paralleling deconstructive criticism.

Alternative Title
Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.