Introduction: textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders; 1. A history of textual scholarship David Greetham; 2. Anglo-American editorial theory Kathryn Sutherland; 3. Continental editorial theory Geert Lernout; 4. Late twentieth-century Shakespeares Hans Walter Gabler; 5. Apparatus, text, interface: how to read a printed critical edition Paul Eggert; 6. The politics of textual scholarship Michelle R. Warren; 7. Fearful asymmetry Random Cloud; 8. What is a book? Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass; 9. Orality John D. Niles; 10. Manuscript textuality Michael Sargent; 11. Picture criticism: textual studies and the image Kari Kraus; 12. Track changes: textual scholarship and the challenge of the born digital Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and Doug Reside; Coda: why digital textual scholarship matters Jerome J. McGann; Further reading; Index.