"By casting the collection explicitly as an outreach to the larger community of Americanists---not primarily those who self-identify as 'digital scholars'---Earhart and Jewell have made an important choice, and one that will likely make this a landmark publication."
---Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, which features a wide range of practitioner-scholars, is the first of its kind: a gathering of people who are expert in American literary studies and in digital technologies, scholars uniquely able to draw from...

Tim Hunt s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac s development of Spontaneous Prose to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical experiment of Visions of Cody, and to demonstrate Kerouac s transition from working within the textual paradigm of modern print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality....