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This chapter analyzes the editorial and pedagogical implications of the only born-digital edition of Milton's works, The John Milton Reading Room, edited by Thomas H. Luxon. The project was developed to respond to a particular teaching problem: how to make Milton's varied allusions accessible for undergraduates. The site's hyperlinked design encourages a dynamic interaction between reader and text, in which readers, as the site's users, can click easily from Milton's works to free online editions of the works Milton alludes to, pursuing individualized paths of discovery. Zukerman argues that the site's design reveals how born-digital editions not only empower reader-users to make their own paths through a text, but also model for students a process of inquiry that makes for successful scholarship.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90478-8_2

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