Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Columbia University Press

Publishers Since 1893

New York Chichester, West Sussex

E-ISBN 978-0-231-50747-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data Lerer, Seth, 1955–

Error and the academic self : the scholarly imagination,

medieval to modern / Seth Lerer.

p. cm.

Includes bibliograhical references and index.

ISBN 0–231–12372–8 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 0–231–12373–6 (paper : alk. paper)

1. English philology—History. 2. Great Britain—Intellectual life.

3. Scholarly publishing—Great Britain. 4. Errors and blunders, Literary—History.

5. English literature—History and criticism—Theory, etc. 6. American literature—

History and criticism—Theory, etc. 7. Error—History. I. Title.

PE51.L46 2002

820.9—dc21

2002073501

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