Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access originally published online on December 3, 2008
Literary and Linguistic Computing 2009 24(1):19-25; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn031
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This article appears in the following Literary and Linguistic Computing issue: Special Issue 'Computing the Edition' [View the issue table of contents]
The dank cellar of electronic texts1
Department of English, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Correspondence: Peter Shillingsburg, Department of English, Crown Center for the Humanities, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626, USA. E-mail: pshillingsburg{at}luc.edu
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The dank cellar surveys rather critically the litter of casualty electronic editions and the false bases and limited goals that informed so many early—that is, current—efforts; and it points hopefully to the best early, though still inadequate, efforts to provide electronic texts responsibly and with added scholarly value. It looks at some problems of representing Victorian fiction.