Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature Book

List of illustrations

1 Introduction 1

2 The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches 19

3 The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes 41

4 Forgery and authenticity: historical documents, literary works and paintings 61

5 Conservators and agency: their role in the work 86

6 Subtilising authorship: Rembrandt, scientific evidence and modern connoisseurship 109

7 Materialist, performance or literary Shakespeare? 131

8 Modes of editing literary works: conflicts in theory and practice 154

9 Readers and editors: new directions in scholarly editing 185

10 The editorial gaze and the nature of the work 214

Notes 241

Bibliography 265

Index 285