Electronic Texts in the Humanities Principles and Practice [Hardcover]

This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analysing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It also assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research.

List of Figures
1. Why Electronic Texts?
2. Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts
3. Text Encoding
4. Concordance and Text Retrieval Programs
5. Literary Analysis
6. Linguistic Analysis
7. Stylometry and Attribution Studies
8. Textual Criticism and Electronic Editions
9. Dictionaries and Lexical Databases
10. Where Next?
Bibliography
Index

Susan Hockey is Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London