Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Whitney Anne Trettien

Titel

A Deep History of Electronic Textuality: The Case of English Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica

Ist Teil von

• Digital humanities quarterly, 2013-01, Vol.7 (1)

Ort / Verlag

Providence

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

EZB*

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Print-on-demand (POD) versions of out-of-copyright literary editions have recently flooded the digital marketplace, dragging the editorial work of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries back into circulation. Often assembled by software as facsimile publications or OCR "plain text" editions, then printed and delivered before the text is seen by human eyes, these POD books are altering how the material weight of the past bears on the present. Through a case study of Milton's Areopagitica, this essay explores how POD's zombie-like revitalization of earlier texts challenges us to broaden our understanding of the nature of digital textuality, especially as it pertains to the work of electronic editing.