Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

Editors’ Introduction xviii

Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman

Part I Introduction 1

1 Imagining the New Media Encounter 3

Alan Liu

Part II Traditions 27

2 ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers 29

Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Jones

3 Disciplinary Impact and Technological Obsolescence in Digital Medieval Studies 65

Daniel Paul O’Donnell

4 ‘‘Knowledge will be multiplied’’: Digital Literary Studies and Early Modern Literature 82

Matthew Steggle

5 Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages: Image, Text, and Hypertext 106

Peter Damian-Grint

6 Multimedia and Multitasking: A Survey of Digital Resources for Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies 121

John A. Walsh

7 Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature 139

Dirk Van Hulle

Part III Textualities 161

8 Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing 163

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

9 Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality 183

Bertrand Gervais

10 Reading on Screen: The New Media Sphere 203

Christian Vandendorpe

11 The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space 216

Johanna Drucker

12 Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World 233

Carolyn Guertin

13 Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age 250

Marie-Laure Ryan

14 Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction 267

Nick Montfort

15 Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality in the History of Hypertext 283

Belinda Barnet and Darren Tofts

16 Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital Literature Installation 301

Mark Leahy

17 Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades 318

Christopher Funkhouser

18 Digital Literary Studies: Performance and Interaction 336

David Z. Saltz

19 Licensed to Play: Digital Games, Player Modifications, and Authorized Production 349

Andrew Mactavish

20 Blogs and Blogging: Text and Practice 369

Aimée Morrison

Part IV Methodologies 389

21 Knowing : Modeling in Literary Studies 391

Willard McCarty

22 Digital and Analog Texts 402

John Lavagnino

23 Cybertextuality and Philology 415

Ian Lancashire

24 Electronic Scholarly Editions 434

Kenneth M. Price

25 The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature 451

James Cummings

26 Algorithmic Criticism 477

Stephen Ramsay

27 Writing Machines 492

William Winder

28 Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies 517

David L. Hoover

29 The Virtual Library 534

G. Sayeed Choudhury and David Seaman

30 Practice and Preservation – Format Issues 547

Marc Bragdon, Alan Burk, Lisa Charlong, and Jason Nugent

31 Character Encoding 564

Christian Wittern

Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources 577

Tanya Clement and Gretchen Gueguen

Index 597

About the Author

Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in HumanitiesComputing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria;President of the Society for Digital Humanities; and VisitingSenior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in theHumanities at King's College London, and Visiting ResearchProfessor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the DigitalHumanities Summer Institute and founding editor of the electronicscholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, Siemens hasauthored numerous articles on the interconnection between literarystudies and computational methods. Susan Schreibman is the Long Room Hub Assistant Professorin Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. She is a member ofthe School of English. Previously she was the foundingDirector of the Digital Humanities Observatory, a national digitalhumanities centre developed under the auspices of the Royal IrishAcademy (2008-2011); Assistant Dean for Digital Collections andResearch , University of Maryland Libraries (2005-2008); andAssistant Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in theHumanities (2001-2005). Dr Schreibman is the Founding Editor of TheThomas MacGreevy Archive, Irish Resources in the Humanities, andThe Versioning Machine. She is the co-editor Companion to DigitalHumanities (2004), and the author of Collected Poems of ThomasMacGreevy: An Annotated Edition (1991). She is the founding editorof the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Reviews

"Once again Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman have produced a remarkable collection of writing about scholarship and resource creation in the area of digital humanities .... The companion provides a very thorough survey of research and resource development in numerous area of digital literary studies, written by an impressive collection of leading scholars." (The Review of English Studies)