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G. Thomas Tanselle

January 01, 1970

George Thomas Tanselle (born January 29, 1934) is an American textual critic, bibliographer, and book collector, especially known for his work on Herman Melville. He was Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation from 1978 to 2006.[1]

Biography edit

George Thomas Tanselle was born on January 29, 1934, in Lebanon, Indiana.[2] He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1955.[2] Tanselle attended graduate school at Northwestern University where he studied with Harrison Hayford among others. He received his PhD in 1959 from the department of English where his dissertation was titled Faun at the Barricades: The Life and Work of Floyd Dell.[3] From 1960 through 1978 he taught at the University of Wisconsin.[4] After moving to New York City in 1978, he served as vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation until 2006.[4] He was an adjunct professor of English at Columbia University, and co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the writings of Herman Melville. He was president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1993–2006. He is also a member of the board of directors and textual consultant of the Library of America.[1] He was president of the Grolier Club, the pre-eminent American society of bibliophiles, 1986–1990.

Tanselle held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1969–70), American Council of Learned Societies (1973–74), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977–78).[4]

Theories of textual editing and influence edit

Tanselle absorbed the principles of Walter W. Greg and Fredson Bowers, who developed the theory of textual criticism, a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in texts, both manuscripts and printed books, in order to create a text which most closely reflects the author's intent. He has been called the "most prominent, consistent, and authoritative defender of the Greg-Bowers approach to editing," which is now the "dominant theoretical and practical position in Anglo-American editing." Tanselle has sought to accommodate legitimate critiques of its limitations, such as the insistence on the difference between substantive and accidentals, that is, the difference between the words and their spelling and punctuation. [5] Tanselle, says one scholar, like Greg and Bowers, postulates the notion of an "ideal 'correct' text, measured against which extant texts show various degrees of 'corruption' that the editor seeks to remove." Tanselle follows this tradition more flexibly, but still comes to rest on the "principle of the author's final intention," which the "editor (or critic) seeks first to understand and then to implement..." This position is opposed to the New Criticism, which rejects the author's intent, since the author's intentions are not relevant specifically by themselves, taken solely, for an artistic work, or "piece of art", once it is finished.[6]

He then applied these principles to the study of American literature. [7] He was particularly active as textual editor for the Northwestern-Newberry edition of the works of Herman Melville to make a critical edition, as approved by The Center for Scholarly Editions. [8]

Major publications edit

Books

  • —— (1967). Royall Tyler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Hayford, Harrison; Hershel Parker; G. Thomas Tanselle, eds. (1968). The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.
  • —— (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-36761-8.
  • ——; Newberry Library. (1976). A Checklist of Editions of Moby-Dick, 1851-1976: Issued on the Occasion of an Exhibition at the Newberry Library Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Its Original Publication. Evanston; Chicago: Northwestern University Press ; Newberry Library.
  • —— (1977). The Editing of Historical Documents. Charlottesville, Va.: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-0804-3.
  • —— (1979). Selected Studies in Bibliography. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-0829-9.
  • —— (1981). The History of Books as a Field of Study: A Paper. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Hanes Foundation, Rare Book Collection/Academy Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • —— (1990). Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-1303-9.
  • Sallust (1993). David L. Vander Meulen; G. Thomas Tanselle (eds.). Samuel Johnson's Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript. Translated by Samuel Johnson. New York Charlottesville: Johnsonians ; Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.
  • —— (1993). The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. ISBN 1-883631-00-9.
  • —— (1997). Preface. The Middle Hill Press: A Checklist of the Horblit Collection of Books, Tracts, Leaflets, and Broadsides Printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps at His Press at Middle Hill, or Elsewhere to His Order, Now in the Library of the Grolier Club. By Holzenberg, Eric. New York: The Grolier Club. ISBN 0-910672-20-2.
  • —— (1998). Literature and Artifacts. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. ISBN 1-883631-06-8.
  • Tanselle, G. Thomas; Peter Franklin Kardon; Eunice R. Schwager (2001). The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-2000: A Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Record. New York: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  • —— (2003). Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. ISBN 1-883631-09-2.
  • Ray, Gordon Norton; G. Thomas Tanselle (2005). The Art Deco Book in France. Charlottesville New Castle, Del.: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ; Distributed by Oak Knoll Books. ISBN 978-1-883631-12-3.
  • —— (2006). The Pleasures of Being a Scholar-Collector. New York: Grolier Club. ISBN 0-910672-66-0.
  • —— (2009). Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76034-8.
  • —— (2011). Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use. Charlottesville; New Castle, Del.: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ; Oak Knoll Books. ISBN 978-1-883631-13-0.
  • Tanselle, G. Thomas; Hal Kugeler (2011). Other People's Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell. Chicago: Caxton Club. ISBN 978-0-940550-10-0.
  • —— (2013). Essays in Bibliographical History. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. ISBN 978-1-883631-14-7.
  • —— (2020). Descriptive Bibliography. Charlottesville; New Castle, Del.: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ; Oak Knoll Books. ISBN 978-1-883631-19-2.

Selected articles

  • —— (1972). . Studies in Bibliography. 25: 41–88. Archived from the original on 2013-09-12. Retrieved 2006-06-04.
  • —— (1975). "Greg's Theory of Copy-Text and the Editing of American Literature". Studies in Bibliography. 28: 167–230. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  • —— (1976). "The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention". Studies in Bibliography. 29: 167–211. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  • —— (1981). "Recent Editorial Discussion and the Central Questions of Editing". Studies in Bibliography. 34: 23–65. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  • —— (1986). "Historicism and Critical Editing". Studies in Bibliography. 39: 1–46. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  • —— (1995). "The Varieties of Scholarly Editing". In D. C. Greetham (ed.). Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.
  • —— (2003). "Dust-Jackets, Dealers, and Documentation." Studies in Bibliography (Charlottesville, Va.) 56, no. 1 (2003): 45–140.

References and further reading edit

  • Bornstein, George (1991). Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-09439-4.
  • Bryant, John. "Editing Versions: Historicism, Biography, and the Digital in Tanselle's Descriptive Bibliography." Textual Cultures : Text, Contexts, Interpretation 14, no. 2 (2022).
  • Groden, Michael (1991), "Contemporary textual and literary theory", in Bornstein, George (ed.), Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0-472-09439-4

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b "Tanselle, G. Thomas". The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. January 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-860653-6.
  2. ^ a b Velázquez, Rita C., ed. (1999). Directory of American Scholars. Vol. 2 (9th ed.). Gale. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-7876-3164-2. ISSN 0070-5101. OCLC 45129594.
  3. ^ Faun at the Barricades: the life and work of Floyd Dell in WorldCat, accessed December 30, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c G. Thomas Tanselle papers, 1960-2005.
  5. ^ Groden (1991), p. 263.
  6. ^ Bornstein (1991), p. 5.
  7. ^ Tanselle (1975).
  8. ^ Hayford, Parker & Tanselle (1968).

External links edit

  • G. Thomas Tanselle papers (his personal archive) in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library

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George Thomas Tanselle born January 29 1934 is an American textual critic bibliographer and book collector especially known for his work on Herman Melville He was Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation from 1978 to 2006 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Theories of textual editing and influence 3 Major publications 4 References and further reading 5 Notes 6 External linksBiography editGeorge Thomas Tanselle was born on January 29 1934 in Lebanon Indiana 2 He received a bachelor s degree from Yale University in 1955 2 Tanselle attended graduate school at Northwestern University where he studied with Harrison Hayford among others He received his PhD in 1959 from the department of English where his dissertation was titled Faun at the Barricades The Life and Work of Floyd Dell 3 From 1960 through 1978 he taught at the University of Wisconsin 4 After moving to New York City in 1978 he served as vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation until 2006 4 He was an adjunct professor of English at Columbia University and co editor of the Northwestern Newberry Edition of the writings of Herman Melville He was president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1993 2006 He is also a member of the board of directors and textual consultant of the Library of America 1 He was president of the Grolier Club the pre eminent American society of bibliophiles 1986 1990 Tanselle held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1969 70 American Council of Learned Societies 1973 74 and the National Endowment for the Humanities 1977 78 4 Theories of textual editing and influence editTanselle absorbed the principles of Walter W Greg and Fredson Bowers who developed the theory of textual criticism a branch of textual scholarship philology and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in texts both manuscripts and printed books in order to create a text which most closely reflects the author s intent He has been called the most prominent consistent and authoritative defender of the Greg Bowers approach to editing which is now the dominant theoretical and practical position in Anglo American editing Tanselle has sought to accommodate legitimate critiques of its limitations such as the insistence on the difference between substantive and accidentals that is the difference between the words and their spelling and punctuation 5 Tanselle says one scholar like Greg and Bowers postulates the notion of an ideal correct text measured against which extant texts show various degrees of corruption that the editor seeks to remove Tanselle follows this tradition more flexibly but still comes to rest on the principle of the author s final intention which the editor or critic seeks first to understand and then to implement This position is opposed to the New Criticism which rejects the author s intent since the author s intentions are not relevant specifically by themselves taken solely for an artistic work or piece of art once it is finished 6 He then applied these principles to the study of American literature 7 He was particularly active as textual editor for the Northwestern Newberry edition of the works of Herman Melville to make a critical edition as approved by The Center for Scholarly Editions 8 Major publications editBooks 1967 Royall Tyler Cambridge Harvard University Press Hayford Harrison Hershel Parker G Thomas Tanselle eds 1968 The Writings of Herman Melville Evanston Ill Northwestern University Press 1971 Guide to the Study of United States Imprints Cambridge Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ISBN 0 674 36761 8 Newberry Library 1976 A Checklist of Editions of Moby Dick 1851 1976 Issued on the Occasion of an Exhibition at the Newberry Library Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Its Original Publication Evanston Chicago Northwestern University Press Newberry Library 1977 The Editing of Historical Documents Charlottesville Va Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia ISBN 0 8139 0804 3 1979 Selected Studies in Bibliography Charlottesville Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia ISBN 0 8139 0829 9 1981 The History of Books as a Field of Study A Paper Chapel Hill N C Hanes Foundation Rare Book Collection Academy Affairs Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1990 Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing Charlottesville Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia ISBN 0 8139 1303 9 Sallust 1993 David L Vander Meulen G Thomas Tanselle eds Samuel Johnson s Translation of Sallust A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript Translated by Samuel Johnson New York Charlottesville Johnsonians Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1993 The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ISBN 1 883631 00 9 1997 Preface The Middle Hill Press A Checklist of the Horblit Collection of Books Tracts Leaflets and Broadsides Printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps at His Press at Middle Hill or Elsewhere to His Order Now in the Library of the Grolier Club By Holzenberg Eric New York The Grolier Club ISBN 0 910672 20 2 1998 Literature and Artifacts Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ISBN 1 883631 06 8 Tanselle G Thomas Peter Franklin Kardon Eunice R Schwager 2001 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1925 2000 A Seventy Fifth Anniversary Record New York John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2003 Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ISBN 1 883631 09 2 Ray Gordon Norton G Thomas Tanselle 2005 The Art Deco Book in France Charlottesville New Castle Del Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Distributed by Oak Knoll Books ISBN 978 1 883631 12 3 2006 The Pleasures of Being a Scholar Collector New York Grolier Club ISBN 0 910672 66 0 2009 Bibliographical Analysis A Historical Introduction Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 76034 8 2011 Book Jackets Their History Forms and Use Charlottesville New Castle Del Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Oak Knoll Books ISBN 978 1 883631 13 0 Tanselle G Thomas Hal Kugeler 2011 Other People s Books Association Copies and the Stories They Tell Chicago Caxton Club ISBN 978 0 940550 10 0 2013 Essays in Bibliographical History Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ISBN 978 1 883631 14 7 2020 Descriptive Bibliography Charlottesville New Castle Del Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Oak Knoll Books ISBN 978 1 883631 19 2 Selected articles 1972 Some Principles for Editorial Apparatus Studies in Bibliography 25 41 88 Archived from the original on 2013 09 12 Retrieved 2006 06 04 1975 Greg s Theory of Copy Text and the Editing of American Literature Studies in Bibliography 28 167 230 Retrieved 2018 05 22 1976 The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention Studies in Bibliography 29 167 211 Retrieved 2018 05 22 1981 Recent Editorial Discussion and the Central Questions of Editing Studies in Bibliography 34 23 65 Retrieved 2018 05 22 1986 Historicism and Critical Editing Studies in Bibliography 39 1 46 Retrieved 2018 05 22 1995 The Varieties of Scholarly Editing In D C Greetham ed Scholarly Editing A Guide to Research New York The Modern Language Association of America 2003 Dust Jackets Dealers and Documentation Studies in Bibliography Charlottesville Va 56 no 1 2003 45 140 References and further reading editBornstein George 1991 Representing Modernist Texts Editing as Interpretation Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press ISBN 0 472 09439 4 Bryant John Editing Versions Historicism Biography and the Digital in Tanselle s Descriptive Bibliography Textual Cultures Text Contexts Interpretation 14 no 2 2022 Groden Michael 1991 Contemporary textual and literary theory in Bornstein George ed Representing Modernist Texts Editing as Interpretation Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press ISBN 0 472 09439 4Notes edit a b Tanselle G Thomas The Oxford Companion to the Book Oxford University Press January 2010 ISBN 978 0 19 860653 6 a b Velazquez Rita C ed 1999 Directory of American Scholars Vol 2 9th ed Gale p 300 ISBN 978 0 7876 3164 2 ISSN 0070 5101 OCLC 45129594 Faun at the Barricades the life and work of Floyd Dell in WorldCat accessed December 30 2014 a b c G Thomas Tanselle papers 1960 2005 Groden 1991 p 263 Bornstein 1991 p 5 Tanselle 1975 Hayford Parker amp Tanselle 1968 External links editG Thomas Tanselle papers his personal archive in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title G Thomas Tanselle amp oldid 1181199335, 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