Siemens Ray - A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

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This paperback edition first published 2013
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2013 by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman

Edition history: Blackwell Publishing Ltd (hardback, 2007)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to digital literary studies / edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman.
p. cm.(Blackwell companions to literature and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-4864-1 (cloth) 978-1-118-49227-7 (pbk)
1. Literature and the Internet. 2. Electronic publications. 3. LiteratureComputer network resources.
4. Digital libraries. 5. Hypertext systems. I. Siemens, Raymond George, 1966 II. Schreibman, Susan.
PN56.I65C66 2007
802.85dc22

2007003822

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Cover image: William Blake, Newton, color print finished in ink and watercolor, 1795/c. 1805; Tate, London 2006
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Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is President (English) of the Society for Digital Humanities / Socit pour ltude des mdias interactifs, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College London, and Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he is also author of works chiefly focusing on areas where literary studies and computational methods intersect, is editor of several Renaissance texts, is series co-editor of Topics in the Digital Humanities (University of Illinois Press) and is co-editor of several book collections on humanities computing topics, among them the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and Mind Technologies (University of Calgary Press, 2006).
Susan Schreibman is Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research at University of Maryland Libraries. She received her PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama from University College Dublin (1997). She is the founding editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive, Irish Resources in the Humanities, and principle developer of The Versioning Machine. She is the author of