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Article: Editorial statement.
- Article from:
- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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From its inception after the end of the First World War, PQ has published contributions in many genres of literary scholarship and has opened its pages to a wide range of critical methodologies. One constant over the years, however, has been its commitment to the study of textuality in its varied forms, from the creation of scholarly editions to the history of the book trade, from manuscript transmission to the recovery of works by women writers. PQ came of age with the New Bibliography, which had an impact on nineteenth-century historical philology comparable to the effect, decades later, of post-structuralism on the New Criticism. W. W. Greg, Alfred Pollard, Ronald ...