Reflects on and re-imagines the role of the scholarly edition and its reader in the twenty-first century.

Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies

The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the ea

What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance

Just as a traveler crossing a continent won’t sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can’t grasp the largest patterns organizing literary