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Reflections and predictions of technology's effect on reading and writing

Introduces readers to large-scale literary computing and the revolutionary potential of macroanalysis.

Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, this book ranges from philology in ancient Alexandria to the vision of user-supported online critical editing, from peer-directed texts distributed to a few to community-edited products shaped by the many.

Rethinking digital literary criticism by situating computational work within the broader context of the humanities

Jennifer Travis is professor and chair of English at St. John's University. Her most recent book is Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Jessica DeSpain is an associate professor of English language and literature, editor of The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is the author of Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book