New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction

by Jerome McGann and Jerome J. McGann

Book Overview

A manifesto for the humanities in the digital age, A New Republic of Letters argues that the history of texts, together with the methods by which they are preserved and made available for interpretation, are the overriding subjects of humanist study in the twenty-first century. Theory and philosophy, which have grounded the humanities for decades, no longer suffice as an intellectual framework. Jerome McGann proposes we look instead to philology--a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674728696
• ISBN13: 9780674728691
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"