The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052151410X ISBN 13: 9780521514101

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

As more and more of our cultural heritage migrates into digital form and as increasing amounts of literature and art are created within digital environments, it becomes more important than ever before for us to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear, engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created, shaped and transmitted to us. They outline the theory behind studying texts in many different forms and offer case studies demonstrating key methodologies underlying the vital processes of editing and presenting texts. Through their multiple perspectives they demonstrate the centrality of textual scholarship to current literary studies of all kinds and express the sheer intellectual excitement of a crucial scholarly discipline entering a new phase of its existence.

About this title

Book Description:

In the digital age, it has become more important than ever before to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear, engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created, shaped and transmitted to us.

About the Author:

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.

Julia Flanders is Director of the Women Writers Project in the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 052151410X
• ISBN 13: 9780521514101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Fraistat Neil, Flanders Julia