Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities: Paper Processors. Alex Christie.
The article focuses on Alex Christie's book, *Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities: Paper Processors*, which explores the convergence of modern literary writing and digital media. Christie argues that the text processing methods used by modernist authors like Raymond Roussel,...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 1336 - 1339 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2025
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