Introduction
The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches
The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes
Forgery and authenticity : historical documents, literary works, and paintings
Conservators and agency : their role in the work
Subtilising authorship : Rembrandt, scientific evidence, and modern connoisseurship
Materialist, performance, or literary Shakespeare?
Modes of editing literary works : conflicts in theory and practice
Readers and editors : new directions in scholarly editing
The editorial gaze and the nature of the work.
Securing the past : conservation in art, architecture and literature by Paul Eggert. ISBN 9780521725910. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.