| RQ-50338-08 | Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings | 7/1/2008 - 6/30/2011 | $300,000.00 | Kenneth | | Price | | | | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | 68503-2427 | USA | 2008 | American Literature | Scholarly Editions and Translations | Research Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | A comprehensive electronic edition of Walt Whitman's Civil War writings. (36 months)
The Walt Whitman Archive will create a comprehensive edition of the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman, probably the most important literary interpreter of this conflict. Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities will allow us to complete this work by 2011, in time for the observance of the sesquicentennial of the outbreak of the War. The War profoundly shaped Leaves of Grass, the first masterpiece of American poetry, and Whitman extensively depicted and analyzed the Civil War in journals, notebooks, letters, essays, journalism, memoirs, and manuscript drafts. We will electronically edit, arrange, and publish -- often for the first time -- the hundreds of documents that give voice to Whitman's experience of the war. In addition to making these documents freely available, our work will help to model for other scholars best practices in creating, publishing, and sustaining electronic editions. |