Abstract
CULTURE-at the same time as being wary of defining it too precisely. This collection of essays had its genesis in a conference held at the University of Stirling in July 2005 to mark the inauguration of a new collaborative research group. The idea of Textual Culture originated with Bethan Benwell, Joe Bray, Adrian Hunter, and Stephen Penn as a way of bringing together their diverse research interests and going beyond the usual disciplinary protocols that structure academic departments and research in the UK and US. It was also inspired by a sense of seeing what might emerge, precisely because-as we stated in the conference call for papers-the future shape of Textual Culture is still unknown. Nevertheless, a kind of manifesto appears on the Stirling research group's website:
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