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The American literature scholar in the digital age /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Earhart, Amy E., 1969-, Jewell, Andrew (Andrew W.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan Library, [2011]
Series:Editorial theory and literary criticism.
Subjects:
Literature and the Internet > United States.
American literature > Research > Methodology.
American literature > Research > Electronic information resources.
American literature > Study and teaching > Methodology.
American literature > Study and teaching > Electronic information resources.
American literature > History and criticism > Electronic information resources.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell
  • Part 1. Shifts in professional practices: Collaborative work and the conditions for American literary scholarship in a digital age / Kenneth M. Price; Challenging gaps: redesigning collaboration in the digital humanities / Amy E. Earhart; Whitman's poems in periodicals: prospects for periodicals scholarship in the digital age / Susan Belasco; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin: a case study in textual transmission / Wesley Raabe; Presentation of archival materials on the web: a curator's model based on selectivity and interpretation / Leslie Perrin Wilson; Scholars' usage of digital archives in American literature / Lisa Spiro and Jane Segal
  • Part 2. Markup and tools: new models and methods for humanistic inquiry: A case for heavy editing: the example of race and children's literature in the Gilded Age / Amanda Gailey; Where is the text of America? witnessing revision and the online critical archive / John Bryant; "Counted out at last": text analysis on the Willa Cather Archive / Andrew Jewell and Brian L. Pytlik Zillig; Visualizing the archive / Edward Whitley
  • Part 3. Theoretical challenges in digital Americanist scholarship: digital humanities and the study of race and ethnicity / Stephanie P. Browner; Design and politics in electronic American literary archives / Matt Cohen ; Encoding culture: building a digital archive based on traditional Ojibwe teachings / Timothy B. Powell and Larry P. Aitken.