A new republic of letters: memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction

Part I. From history to method: Why textual scholarship matters ; "The inorganic organization of memory" ; Memory: history, philosophy, philology

Part II. From theory to method: The documented world ; Marking texts in many dimensions ; Digital tools and the emergence of the social text

Part III. From method to practice: What do scholars want? ; Decentered culture and critical method : the example of Poe ; The title page of the pioneers: a philological case study

Conclusion: Pseudodoxia academica, or, Literary studies in a global age.