This
Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments.
- A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studies
- Includes the seminal writings from the field
- Focuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservation
- Explores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogs
- The Appendix serves as an annotated bibliography
Notes on Contributors viii
Editors’ Introduction xviii
Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman
Part I Introduction 1
1 Imagining the New Media Encounter 3
Alan Liu
Part II Traditions 27
2 ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers 29
Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Jones
3 Disciplinary Impact and Technological Obsolescence in Digital Medieval Studies 65
Daniel Paul O’Donnell
4 ‘‘Knowledge will be multiplied’’: Digital Literary Studies and Early Modern Literature 82
Matthew Steggle
5 Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages: Image, Text, and Hypertext 106
Peter Damian-Grint
6 Multimedia and Multitasking: A Survey of Digital Resources for Nineteenth-Century Literarlƒ+