| RQ-249901-16 | Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Unearthing The "Buried Masterpiece" of American Literature: A Digital Variorum of the 1855 Leaves of Grass | 7/1/2017 - 6/30/2020 | $300,000.00 | Kenneth | | Price | Ed | | Folsom | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2016 | American Literature | Scholarly Editions and Translations | Research Programs | 300000 | 0 | 299999.99 | 0 | Preparation for online publication of 19th-century
American author Walt Whitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass, as part of an existing digital archive devoted to
Whitman. See website at http://www.whitmanarchive.org.
The Walt Whitman Archive seeks NEH support to edit the first edition of Leaves of Grass and the constellation of draft documents that contributed to it by developing a digital variorum of this edition of Leaves from manuscript and notebook beginnings through its many variations in print. Whitman wrote the poetry, designed the book, and set some of the type, and his first Leaves was stunning both as verse and as a material object. This project will entail careful work on at least ninety-nine manuscripts contributing to the volume. Our goals are to advance understanding of this paradigm-shifting book and to enable future scholarship by drawing on some of the opportunities for representation unique to digital editing. |