A New Republic of Letters

Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Jerome McGann

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ISBN 9780674728691

Publication Date: 03/17/2014

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256 pages

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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. From History to Method
- 1. Why Textual Scholarship Matters
- 2. “The Inorganic Organization of Memory”
- 3. Memory: History, Philosophy, Philology
II. From Theory to Method
- 4. The Documented World
- 5. Marking Texts in Many Dimensions
- 6. Digital Tools and the Emergence of the Social Text
III. From Method to Practice
- 7. What Do Scholars Want?
- 8. Philological Investigations I: The Example of Poe
- 9. Philological Investigations II: A Page from Cooper
Conclusion: Pseudodoxia Academica; or, Literary Studies in a Global Age
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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