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Editor's Column—The Work of the Book in the Age of Electronic Reproduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Simon Gikandi
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PMLA , Volume 127 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 201 - 211
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Copyright © 2012 by The Modern Language Association of America

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