This collection of essays attempts to address some problems of editorial theory and practice which its contributors have either encountered in their own work as practicing editors or as critical users of English editions. It also discusses more general questions, i.e. linguistic problems of editing, the problems of editing bilingual editions or school editions and the difficult economics of scholarly editions today. There are also essays on editing performance poetry, the waning impact of analytical bibliography, the role of teaching and learning editing as well as on the situation of editorial theory and practice among Anglicists in Germany. Several of the essays in this volume began their lives as papers for a workshop on »Editorial Problems« held at the annual meeting of the German 'Anglistentag' in Gießen in September 1997.
Christa Jansohn ist Lehrstuhlinhaberin für Britische Kultur und Leiterin des "Centre for British Studies" an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Sie war Visiting Fellow am Lucy Cavendish College, Corpus Christi College und Trinity College, Cambridge (1995 - 96, 1998, 2005) sowie Eric and Mary Weinmann Fellow an der Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (1994, 1999 - 2000, 2005 - 2006).
