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An alternative to the traditional research paper, the scholarly edition has much to offer students and professors of American literature. By "scholarly edition" I mean a single document that includes a primary text, a note on the text, a paper that summarizes and interprets the text, short endnotes glossing the text, and a bibliography. All of us are familiar with the popular scholarly editions of literary works published for the college classroom by Norton, Broadview, Bedford, and many other scholarly presses. But not all have considered the creation of shorter yet comparable works as an assignment for the undergraduate and …