Part I. From history to method -- Why textual scholarship matters -- "The inorganic organization of memory" -- Memory : history, philosophy, philology -- Part II. From theory to method -- The documented world -- Marking texts in many dimensions -- Digital tools and the emergence of the social text -- Part III. From method to practice -- What do scholars want? -- Decentered culture and critical method : the example of Poe -- The title page of the pioneers : a philological case study -- Conclusion: Pseudodoxia academica, or, Literary studies in a global age.