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The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age

Edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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"By casting the collection explicitly as an outreach to the larger community of Americanists---not primarily those who self-identify as 'digital scholars'---Earhart and Jewell have made an important choice, and one that will likely make this a landmark publication."

---Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia

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 digital resources and to provide theoretical commentary on how the transformation to new technologies alters the way we think about and articulate scholarship in American literature. The volume collects articles from those who are involved in tool development, usability testing, editing and textual scholarship, digital librarianship, and issues of race and ethnicity in digital humanities, while also situating digital humanities work within the larger literary discipline. In addition, the volume examines the traditional structures of the fields, including tenure and promotion criteria, modes of scholarly production, the skill sets required for scholarship, and the training of new scholars.

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age will attract practitioners of digital humanities in multiple fields, Americanists who utilize digital materials, and those who are intellectually curious about the new movement and materials.

Amy E. Earhart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.

Andrew Jewell is Associate Professor of Digital Projects, University Libraries, at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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digitalculturebooks  is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

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  • Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism
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  • 978-0-472-90034-3 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-07119-7 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-05119-9 (paper)
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  • Literary Studies:American Literature
  • Media Studies:New Media
  • Cultural Studies
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  • Cover
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Shifts in Professional Practices
    • Collaborative Work and the Conditions for American Literary Scholarship in a Digital Age
    • Collaborative Work and the Conditions for American Literary Scholarship in a Digital Age
    • Challenging Gaps: Redesigning Collaboration in the Digital Humanities
    • Whitman’s Poems in Periodicals: Prospects for Periodicals Scholarship in the Digital Age Whitman’s Poems in Periodicals:
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Case Study in Textual Transmission Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
    • Presentation of Archival Materials on the Web: A Curator’s Model Based on Selectivity and Interpretation
    • Scholars’ Usage of Digital Archives in American Literature
  • 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 Race and Children’s Literature in the Gilded Age
    • Where Is the Text of America? Witnessing Revision and the Online Critical Archive
    • “Counted Out at Last”: Text Analysis on the Willa Cather Archive Willa Cather Archive
    • Visualizing the Archive
  • Part 3: Theoretical Challenges in Digital Americanist Scholarship
    • Digital Humanities and the Study of Race and Ethnicity
    • Design and Politics in Electronic American Literary Archives
    • Encoding Culture: Building a Digital Archive Based on Traditional Ojibwe Teachings
  • Contributors
  • Index

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