First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and in

Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. “Texts,” therefore, encompass a broad varie

The Visible Text offers an innovative new vision of literary history and the history of the book from Beowulf to present day graphic novels.

These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual inst