The Place of Fredson Bowers in Mediaeval Editing

Author / Editor
Greetham, D. C.

Title
The Place of Fredson Bowers in Mediaeval Editing

Published
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 82 (1988).

Description
Review controversies regarding the editing of medieval texts, faults the new "Riverside Chaucer," which represents no "textual advance over Robinson 2," and judges that "what Bowers offers is the best of two worlds--fidelity to auctorial usage through the selection of a manuscript copy-text close in provenance to the author, and the critical evaluation of substantive variants from other witnesses."

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.