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Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century
. Ed(S): Cope, Kevin L.; Leitz, Robert C.
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Hardback. Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century scrutinizes the culture and sometimes the cult of electronic and other technology-assisted scholarship with respect to eighteenth-century studies. Editor(s): Cope, Kevin L.; Leitz, Robert C. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSA; HBLL; UF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Scholars, librarians, students, and database vendors have all applauded the increase in access to rare, old, venerated, and obscure texts that has resulted from the rise of electronic resources. Almost everyone associated with any branch of cultural history has heard the claims about unlimited research opportunity and the rediscovery of overlooked sources. But are these claims true? Have high-tech systems and methods enhanced or inhibited scholarship? Nowhere is this question more pressing than in the area of eighteenth-century studies, where so much of the subject matter relates to the first wave of informational abundance: to that great period of profuse printing during which presses produced a mass market full of diverse readers. Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century probes the assumptions about the advanced tools that may be replicating this period of profusion among contemporary scholars. How much access to “period” information do current cost and present institutional support really allow? Who is accessing what—and who is not? Which authors and which topics get lost in the processor-driven shuffle? How do electronic tools bias scholarship? What are the disadvantages of databases? These and many more questions receive a brisk and robust review in this first critique of new-wave research. A variety of acclaimed scholars from an interdisciplinary array of specialties look at topics ranging from legacy bibliographical projects to standards for online editions to para-textual materials to the appropriateness of importing electronic research techniques into the study of a low-tech period and on to the transatlantic exchange of information in both the early modern and the present periods. Scholars in all fields will benefit from this vigorous analysis of the assumptions underlying the tools and the methods of twenty-first century humanities scholarship.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611484427
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V9781611484427
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About . Ed(S): Cope, Kevin L.; Leitz, Robert C.
Kevin L. Cope is professor of English and of comparative literature at Louisiana State University. The author of three books and the editor of ten volumes as well as the general editor of two periodicals, ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography and 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Dr Cope is presently at work on a comprehensive study of the subterranean world (caves, volcanoes, mines, and earthquakes) in the long eighteenth century. Dr Cope is also active in university governance and higher education policy. Robert C. Leitz, III is the curator of The James Smith Noel Collection and the holder of the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Both a bibliographer and originally an expert on Jack London, Charles Chesnutt, William Dean Howells, and American prose, Dr Leitz has turned his efforts in recent years to the issues pertaining to rare book libraries and special collections. He is the Co-General Editor of ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography as well as of several collections of essays in the area of eighteenth-century studies.
Reviews for Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century
Exploring a burgeoning and increasingly popular field, these essays are invaluable.
The Year's Work In English Studies
Most writing about the abundance of texts made possible by the digital revolution can be divided into utopian declarations of a dawning age of plenitude and lugubrious elegies on a lost age of Gutenberg. Cope, Leitz, and their contributors take a different track, offering learned, witty, and compelling accounts of canonicity, academic labor, and access to resources in our newly wired era, when scholarly standards are more, not less, important than under the old dispensation. Neither a pie-in-the-sky proclamation of triumphalism nor a glum jeremiad, Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century is a thoughtful and wide-ranging account of the current state of the art in eighteenth-century textual studies.
Jack Lynch, Professor of English, Rutgers University and author of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson and Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain Excellent explorations of the ongoing ferment inside literary and cultural studies.
John J. Burke, Jr., Professor of English, University of Alabama
The Year's Work In English Studies
Most writing about the abundance of texts made possible by the digital revolution can be divided into utopian declarations of a dawning age of plenitude and lugubrious elegies on a lost age of Gutenberg. Cope, Leitz, and their contributors take a different track, offering learned, witty, and compelling accounts of canonicity, academic labor, and access to resources in our newly wired era, when scholarly standards are more, not less, important than under the old dispensation. Neither a pie-in-the-sky proclamation of triumphalism nor a glum jeremiad, Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century is a thoughtful and wide-ranging account of the current state of the art in eighteenth-century textual studies.
Jack Lynch, Professor of English, Rutgers University and author of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson and Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain Excellent explorations of the ongoing ferment inside literary and cultural studies.
John J. Burke, Jr., Professor of English, University of Alabama