TY - BOOK AU - Eggert, Paul TI - Securing the past: conservation in art, architecture and literature SN - 9780521725910 U1 - 363.69 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Conservation N1 - 1. Introduction-- 2. The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches-- 3. The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes-- 4. Forgery and authenticity: historical documents, literary works and paintings-- 5. Conservators and agency: their role in the work-- 6. Subtilising authorship: Rembrandt, scientific evidence and modern connoisseurship-- 7. Materialist, performance or literary Shakespeare?-- 8. Modes of editing literary works: conflicts in theory and practice-- 9. Readers and editors: new directions in scholarly editing-- 10. The editorial gaze and the nature of the work; Bibliography N2 - The concept and practice of restoration in all its forms are entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book is the first concerted effort to examine together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past ER -