The American literature scholar in the digital age / edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell.

"The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, which features a wide range of practitioner-scholars, is the first of its kind: a gathering of people who are expert in American literary studies and in digital technologies, scholars uniquely able to draw from experience with building digita...

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Superior document:Editorial theory and literary criticism
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Place / Publishing House:Michigan, United States: : University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan Library,, 2011
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Year of Publication:2010
2011
Language:English
Series:Editorial theory and literary criticism.
Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
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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, chi-ayy ya agg (Wisdom Keeper).