Literary Writing Processes in the Digital Age

Challenges for Textual Scholarship

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Literary Writing Processes in the Digital Age examines what happens to the creative process when authors write with computers rather than with pen and paper. Taking readers behind the scenes of contemporary literature writing it uncovers the often-invisible processes that shape the books we read. It explores writing in an era where creation begins - and often remains - on the screen.This book challenges common assumptions, and it shows that “born-digital” texts offer unprecedented insight into the dynamics of writing, creating new opportunities to observe and reconstruct the creative process of writers at work. It brings together cutting-edge research from textual genetics, digital humanities, and cognitive writing studies, employing innovative methods such as keystroke logging, stylometry, and digital forensics to trace how manuscript drafts evolve, revisions unfold, and writers navigate planning, composition, and research. Contributors demonstrate how these data-rich approaches integrate with established theories of text genetics to reveal writing as a dynamic, traceable process rather than a finished product. The volume also addresses critical challenges of digital materiality—from preserving fragile literary archives to reconceptualizing textual versions—while providing new tools and theoretical frameworks for studying twenty-first-century literary production.Designed for scholars and graduate students in literary studies, digital humanities, textual criticism, and creative writing research, this book will appeal to researchers interested in authorship studies, manuscript genetics, book history, and the intersection of technology and literature, as well as archivists and librarians working with digital literary collections. The book is also valuable for anyone seeking to understand how contemporary writing practices are shaped by digital tools and what this means for the future of literary scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-18
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Pallas Publications
ISBN:9789048566310

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Karina van Dalen-Oskam is head of the Computational Literary Studies Research Group at Huygens Institute (KNAW) and professor in Computational Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the analysis of writing style in fiction using computational methods. In 2023 she published the monograph The Riddle of Literary Quality.Lamyk Bekius is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research interests include genetic criticism, born-digital archives, keystroke logging, and computational literary studies. Floor Buschenhenke is interested in literature and creative writing processes. She has a PhD from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and currently works in IT consultancy.Mariëlle Leijten is a full professor of Professional Communication at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She studies how professionals and students write in complex digital environments, with and without generative AI. Her research focuses on (multilingual) source based writing, workplace writing processes, and how AI can support writing. She also co-founded the keystroke logging tool Inputlog.Vincent Neyt is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research interests include genetic criticism, digital humanities, digital scholarly editing, and Stephen King. Dirk Van Hulle is Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. He is author of Genetic Criticism (2022) and Principal Investigator of the ERC project ‘MARGINAL: Modern Authors Reading: Genesis in Authors’ Libraries’.Luuk Van Waes is professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research focuses on writing processes, in digital and professional contexts. He co-developed Inputlog, a keystroke logging tool to study writing behavior, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Writing Research.

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Table of contents1. IntroductionKarina van Dalen-Oskam, Lamyk Bekius, Floor Buschenhenke, Mariëlle Leijten, Vincent Neyt, Dirk Van Hulle, and Luuk Van Waes2. ‘At my convenience’: Self-archiving and writing practices of Dutch and Flemish writersFloor Buschenhenke3. A continuous flow of alternating processes: Different perspectives on the concept of phases in digital literary writingFloor Buschenhenke and Lamyk Bekius4. Revealing revision in printouts and keystroke data: Examples from text genetic dossiers from the early days of home computing to the presentLamyk Bekius, Vincent Neyt, and Dirk van Hulle5. Exploring editorial influence in the creative writing processEverdien Rietstap6. Tracking stylistic differences in the writing process of Gie Bogaert’s novel RooseveltKarina van Dalen-Oskam and Lamyk Bekius7. Poetic writing processes and what to learn from themVictoria Johansson8. A plea for more collaborationLamyk Bekius and Isabelle Van Ongeval