Amazon.com description: Product Description: Expanded edition. The second half of the twentieth century was one of the most active and provocative periods in the long history of textual criticism. This series of six critical essays surveys theoretical writings in the field from 1950 to 2000 and more than doubles the size of the 1987 edition. The eminent textual scholar G. Thomas Tanselle here chronicles a significant moment in intellectual history and offers a guide for thinking through the basic issues of textual criticism and scholarly editing. With index. xiii, iii , 373 pages. cloth. 8vo..