Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. 1. Theories
5. How We Read 19
6. “The Return to Philology” 39
7. Pathological Philology 57
8. 2. Materialities
9. The Hourglass 73
10. Paper Mythology 93
11. The Literary Manuscript 109
12. From Abstraction to Inscription and Back Again 129
13. On-the-Table 147
14. 3. Practices
15. Opening, Turning, Closing 161
16. Combination of Order and Disorder 175
17. Fractures of Writing 185
18. New Practices = New Conditions? 197
19. 4. Technologies
20. Sites of Digital Humanities 219
21. The Intertextual Frontiers of Vergil’s “Empire without Limit” 229
22. Calendar View 257
23. Micro and Macro, Close and Distant 269
24. Securing the Literary Evidence 287
25. On the authors 311