The American literature scholar in the digital age

Publication Data

• Title The American literature scholar in the digital age
• Contributors Amy E. Earhart, Andrew Jewell
• Publisher University of Michigan Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Language English

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).

Topics

• 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

The American literature scholar in the digital age. ISBN 9780472051199. Published by University of Michigan Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.