Thinking outside the book /Augusta Rohrbach.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
(R)emediation (literacy rethought) -- Memory (authorship revisited) -- History (publication redefined) -- Testimony (the edition reimagined) -- Loss (authorship regained) -- Epilogue. no text left behind (a theory of recovery).
Augusta Rohrbach works through the increasing convergences between digital humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely cohort of nineteenth-century women writers--Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnut--to consider the publishing culture of their period from the perspective of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly concepts from both print culture and new media studies.--Provided by publisher.
9781613763452 9781625341266
2014019828
Books and reading--History. Books--History. Transmission of texts. Authors and readers--History--United States--19th century. Authors and publishers--History--United States--19th century. Authorship--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century. Women authors, American--Political and social views.--19th century American literature--History and criticism.--19th century American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.