Electronic Text

The electronic presentation of text has revolutionized the understanding and use of literary evidence. Formerly, readers and editors were obliged to choose one edition of a text in book-form to work with and to treat other versions as ancillary. Now electronic editions of a text can incorporate all the various versions and revisions. This allows unconstrained access to a much greater range of information.

The authors of this volume consider how the computer helps to reshape ideas of text, of authorship, of the literary canon, of literary authenticity, and of value as embodied in the edited work. They combine approaches from literary theory (post-structuralist and post-modern theories), feminist theory, philosophy of text, and textual criticism.