Overview

The overlaps between the digital humanities and textual studies—two major scholarly fields which share common interests and methods—still demand further theoretical reflections. This volume brings together an exciting collection of book historians, textual editors, curators, and new media theorists to provide templates for and methodological reflections on how digital textual studies research can be done. Featuring contributions from a variety of early career and experienced scholars and practitioners, this volume uses case studies and methodological provocations to open up digital textual studies, as well as taking a step back to consider the broader theoretical and pedagogical implications they raise. In doing so, it sets the agenda for pragmatic, digital text-based scholarship and methods, providing useful tools and frameworks for anyone in need of an introduction to textual studies that is grounded in digital research and new media.

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Author:   Christopher Ohge (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.) ,  Kristen Schuster (King’s College London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781350406766

ISBN 10:   1350406767
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: This is Not a Book: Christopher Ohge & Kristen Schuster PART I. METHODS AND CASE STUDIES 1. Reading the edited collection, distantly: Peter Webster 2. Cataloguing the Enlightenment: Zoe Screti 3. Editing Authenticity in the Manuscript Text: Geoffrey Turnovsky 4. The Printing Surface in an Age of Digital Reproduction: Giles Bergel 5. From Bookshelves to Bytes: Anke Jaspers & Martina Schönbächler 6. A Graph Database Approach to Editing and Publishing Infinitely Recombinant Digital Texts with OCHRE: Miller C. Prosser 7. Pragmatic Digital Editing, Data Analysis, and Creative-Critical Practices: Christopher Ohge 8. Extracting for Experience: Mary Erica Zimmer PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY REFLECTIONS 9. Digital Publishing Practices in Museums: Ellen Charlesworth & Claire Warwick 10. Folklore Archives in the Digital Age: Karoline Strittmater 11.Unlocking Literary Heritage: Wim Van Mierlo 12. Teaching Truman with Hypertext Methods: Ashney Randle, Logan Thompson, Renee Jones, & Sarah Buchanan 13. Describing New Media: Kristen Schuster 14. Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive: Jon Ippolito 15. Book History for the Future: Leah Henrickson Afterword: Dirk Van Hulle

Reviews

In this exemplary collection, Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster issue a powerful reminder of the foundational role of textual scholarship within the study of digital technologies in the humanities. But even more importantly, they demonstrate that textual studies represents the future as well as the past of digital humanities, acting as a fruitful lingua franca between disciplines as apparently disparate as literary studies, book history, new media, museum curation, library studies, theology and data science, to open up new possibilities for researchers and curators. -- Francesca Benatti, Senior Research Fellow In Digital Humanities, Open University, UK

Author Information

Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Kristen Schuster (they/them) is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK.

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