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| | Studies in Bibliography, Volume 36 (1983) |
 | | Dearing makes much of what he sees as different uses of manuscript dates for textual analysts and for bibliographers: he neatly pairs the successful copyist, who "produces a record that postdates the state of the text it records," with the successful editor, who "produces a state of the text which anedates his exemplar" (p. |
 | | He does not seem to see that attempting to restore what the author wrote is different from altering the text to what, in one's own opinion, the author should have written. |
 | | See G. Tanselle, "Problems and Accomplishments in the Editing of the Novel," Studies in the Novel, 7 (1975), 323-360 (esp. 329-331); see also SB, 34 (1981), 30-31, 55 n.65. |
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