This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studies Includes the seminal writings from the field Focuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservation Explores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogs The Appendix serves as an annotated bibliography

This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments.* A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studies* Includes the seminal writings from the field* Focuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservation* Explores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogs* The Appendix serves as an annotated bibliography

Notes on Contributors viiiEditors' Introduction xviiiRay Siemens and Susan SchreibmanPart I Introduction 11 Imagining the New Media Encounter 3Alan LiuPart II Traditions 272 ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers 29Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Jones3 Disciplinary Impact and Technological Obsolescence in Digital Medieval Studies 65Daniel Paul O'Donnell4 ''Knowledge will be multiplied'': Digital Literary Studies and Early Modern Literature 82Matthew Steggle5 Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages: Image, Text, and Hypertext 106Peter Damian-Grint6 Multimedia and Multitasking: A Survey of Digital Resources for Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies 121John A. Walsh7 Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature 139Dirk Van HullePart III Textualities 1618 Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing 163Noah Wardrip-Fruin9 Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality 183Bertrand Gervais10 Reading on Screen: The New Media Sphere 203Christian Vandendorpe11 The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space 216Johanna Drucker12 Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World 233Carolyn Guertin13 Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age 250Marie-Laure Ryan14 Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction 267Nick Montfort15 Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality in the History of Hypertext 283Belinda Barnet and Darren Tofts16 Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital Literature Installation 301Mark Leahy17 Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades 318Christopher Funkhouser18 Digital Literary Studies: Performance and Interaction 336David Z. Saltz19 Licensed to Play: Digital Games, Player Modifications, and Authorized Production 349Andrew Mactavish20 Blogs and Blogging: Text and Practice 369Aimée MorrisonPart IV Methodologies 38921 Knowing : Modeling in Literary Studies 391Willard McCarty22 Digital and Analog Texts 402John Lavagnino23 Cybertextuality and Philology 415Ian Lancashire24 Electronic Scholarly Editions 434Kenneth M. Price25 The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature 451James Cummings26 Algorithmic Criticism 477Stephen Ramsay27 Writing Machines 492William Winder28 Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies 517David L. Hoover29 The Virtual Library 534G. Sayeed Choudhury and David Seaman30 Practice and Preservation - Format Issues 547Marc Bragdon, Alan Burk, Lisa Charlong, and Jason Nugent31 Character Encoding 564Christian WitternAnnotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources 577Tanya Clement and Gretchen GueguenIndex 597