Cover Design by Noah M. Landow

Contents

Foreword

Part I. Introduction

Managing the Digital Word: The Text in an Age of Electronic Reproduction. Paul Delany and George P. Landow

Part II. Text Management

Reading and Managing Texts on the Bibliothèque de France Station. Jacques Virbel

The FreeText Project: Large-Scale Personal Information Retrieval. Mark Zimmermann

Text-Management Software: A Taxonomy. Sue Stigleman

Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing . James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose

Markup Systems in the Present. StevenJ. DeRose

Part III. Textual Resources and Communication

Emerging Electronic Library Services and the Idea of Location Independence. Christinger Tomer

The British National Corpus. Jeremy H. Clear

From the Scholar's Library to the Personal Docuverse. Paul Delany

The Academic On Line. Alen T. McKenzie

Two Theses about the New Scholarly Communication. Allen H. Renear and Geoffrey Bilder

Electronic Conferences and Samiszdat Textuality: The Example of Technoculture. George P. Landow

Part IV. Working with Texts

Seeing through the Interface: Computers and the Future of Composition. Nancy Kaplan and Stuart Moulthrop

Redefining Critical Editions. Peter M. W. Robinson

Computer-Assisted Critical Analysis: A Case Study of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale.Ian Lancashire

Beyond the Word: Reading and the Computer. David S. Miall