Abstract
RECENT YEARS HAVE BROUGHT remarkable developments in electronic storage, management, and analysis of texts. It is difficult to overstate the importance of this technology for the scholarship and teaching of literature. Textual studies is the most fundamental area of literary studies, the subdiscipline upon which all else is based. The new technology revolutionizes textual studies. In doing so, it will eventually bring about profound changes in the way we think about and practise the study and teaching of literature in general. The changes depend upon a simple fact: book and print technology no longer establish key limiting conditions of textuality. For literary studies, the consequences of this shift in our textual condition appear first and most glaringly in theory of texts and editorial practise. The technology of the book has developed over many centuries. During this period textual and editorial scholars were important agents who helped to shape, exploit, and modify this technology. Tracing the evolution of codex-based models for critical editing will supply one with a comprehensive survey of the history of the book and its technology: for it was the critical editor and textual scholar
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