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Changes Coming To Documentary Editing, Amanda A Gailey, Andrew Jewell

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This spring the Council of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), working with the Publications Committee, accepted our proposal to edit Documentary Editing, beginning with the 2012 issue; the Council also approved a change in the journal’s title to Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. Our plan is to continue the fine traditions of the journal— essays about the theory and practice of editing, reviews of editions, and news pertinent to the ADE membership—while simultaneously taking the journal in an exciting new direction. Owing largely to a partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Digital …

Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Expertise As Knowledge And A Technocratic Generation, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

This project stems from two intersecting strands. The statement, "I can always find out," neatly summarizes the intersection. Not surprisingly, it has two distinct but simultaneous meanings. The first, in which "always" means "every time," considers the ways in which the ability to find knowledge has become synonymous with expertise and examines the elements that have fostered this situation. In this regard, factors such as the range of software and hardware-from Wikipedia and FAQs to cellphones and Ipods-which anticipate or "think" for the user but also require constant updating are both rationale and outcome for their youthful consumers. When combined …

Genre, Database, And The Anatomy Of The Digital Archive, Elizabeth J. Vincelette

English Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to define shared characteristics of literary digital archives, specifically to explore how conceptual and structural qualities of such archives express generic qualities. In order to describe digital media such as database or digital archives, scholars resort to metaphors, and this study offers the metaphor of anatomy as a generic inscription with historical and methodological implications. The definition of the anatomy genre draws from Northrop Frye's in Anatomy of Criticism, in which Frye describes how anatomies are characterized by proliferating lists, the mixing of prose and non-prose forms, and self-reflexivity--under the guise of knowledge …

Implikasi Teknologi Maklumat Terhadap Perkembangan Ilmu Hadith., Che Nor Sakinah Itam

Student Works (2010-2019)

Information Technology (IT) is a terminology that shows an existing of a kind of technology that relates knowledge manipulation. It supports input operation, data processing, output, storage and transmitting of knowledge. The existing of internet, wireless information communication networking (wireless), online services and other software become as an indicator of its functions and features. Since all of these functions and features, it becomes the most excellent technologies in today information era. Besides of its effort of functions, this technology has no sieve distance of the truth of knowledge. Any of data and knowledge which is suit to the protocol of …

J. A. Leo Lemay (1935–2008), A Remembrance, Kevin J. Hayes

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

My first semester in graduate school at the University of Delaware I took J. A. Leo Lemay’s Edgar Allan Poe seminar. Writing a seminar paper on the subject of Poe’s use of frontier imagery in his short fiction, I happened to read Prof. Lemay’s essay “The Frontiersman from Lout to Hero” (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 88 [1978]: 187-223). In terms of its breadth of knowledge and depth of insight, I found this essay astonishing. As an undergraduate I had read much about the American frontier, a special interest of mine, but Prof. Lemay’s essay was the single best …

Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Front matter: Officers--Editorial Staff--Table of Content

The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition And The Full Scores That Never Were, Ronald Broude

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The critical edition of the “Savoy Operas” of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan provides a useful example of the ways in which scholarly editions of performing works can alter important elements of the sources on which they are based. The accepted form for the presentation of a critical edition of an opera is the “full score,” but for no Savoy Opera did a real full score ever exist—nor was one ever intended. The sources closest to full scores were the copying masters that Sullivan prepared for use by copyists extracting parts for performers, but these are skeletons into which …

Recent Editions, Margaret A. Hogan

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This annual bibliography of documentary editions recently published in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works. In addition to the bibliographical references, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.

A New Approach To Thoreau’S “Indian Books”, Jessie Bray

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Thoreau’s unpublished Indian Books depict a similar consideration of these cultural vectors that cuts across the chronology of his career, which places them at the forefront of his most serious and ambitious research. In order to track Thoreau’s evolution as a writer and thinker, a re-evaluation of this text is necessary. In the 147 years since his death, comparatively little work has been done to bring the value of this remarkable text to light. Yet the advantages of our present digital age provide perhaps the most useful, but heretofore inaccessible, solution to the problem of discussing the Indian Books. In …

Contributors

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Contributors to Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing, Volume 31: 2010

Matthew J. Bruccoli (1931–2008), Joel Myerson

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Matt Bruccoli joined the English department at the University of South Carolina in 1969, and retired in 2005 as the Emily Brown Jefferies Distinguished Professor of English. As his obituary in the New York Times noted, he “continued to cut a dash on campus, instantly recognizable by his vintage red Mercedes convertible, Brooks Brothers suits, Groucho mustache and bristling crew cut that dated to his Yale days. His untamed Bronx accent also set him apart.” As a scholar, Matt published widely on James Gould Cozzens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, and John O’Hara. Matt knew more about F. …

Massachusetts Historical Society, “The Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive”- Review Of My Dearest Friend: Letters Of Abigail And John Adams. Edited By Margaret A. Hogan And C. James Taylor, John P. Kaminski

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

My Dearest Friend contains 289 letters “selected from the entire corpus” of the Adams letters from 1762 to 1801 and “is meant to show both the consistency of their relationship and the evolution of the family through the entire founding era.” A three-page epilogue on the death of Abigail consists of a short headnote and two letters exchanged between John and John Quincy Adams. All but three of the letters in My Dearest Friend are in the Adams Family manuscript collection given by the Adams family to the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) in 1956. The letters were all microfilmed on …

Review Of The Papers Of Joseph Henry, Volume 11: January 1866–May 1878: The Smithsonianbyears. Edited By Marc Rothenberg; Kathleen W. Dorman, Associate Editor; Frank R. Millikan, Assistant Editor; Deborah Y. Jeffries And Sarah Shoenfeld, Research Assistants., Julie R. Newell

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This volume brings to an end a forty-year project that is both a tremendous contribution to the content and practice of the history of American science and a monument to the talents, commitment, and perseverance of its editors. The list of sponsoring institutions provides some indication of the perceived value of this project across a range of academic disciplines: the Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. Twelve volumes in all including the index, the series traces the life of Joseph Henry (1797–1878) from his education and early academic employment in Albany, New York, through …

Lyman H. Butterfield Award For 2009 Presented To Gregg L. Lint, Mary Jo Kline

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Now I will begin leaking details that will enable you to confirm your suspicions, for by now many of you will have guessed that this year’s recipient of the Lyman H. Butterfield Award is Gregg L. Lint. The project where he has spent his entire career as an editor is, of course, the Adams Papers, whose staff he joined in the fall of 1975. He recently completed work on the fifteenth volume of The Papers of John Adams, the series with which he has been most closely identified. He has been the “lead editor” responsible for volumes in that series …

Association For Documentary Editing Business Meeting, 15 October 2009, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Local Arrangements Committee--President’s Report--Secretary’s Report--Treasurer’s Report--Publications Committee Report--E-newsletter--Meetings Committee Report--Federal Policy Committee Report--New Business

Models Of Digital Documentation: The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive, Amy E. Earhart

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

As with many digital archives, The 19th-Century Digital Concord Archive (CDA) started as a website utilizing simple technology and has evolved to a more technologically advanced scholarly site. The CDA joins an interdisciplinary team from the Department of English, Texas A&M University; the Digital Humanities Initiative, the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University; the Map and GIS Collections and Services, Texas A&M University Libraries; and the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts, in the development of infrastructures that allow the entities to share metadata easily, develop innovative, visually-based search functions, and make visible and accessible the cultural record of …

Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 31: 2010

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Volume 31, 2010 *The Association for Documentary Editing is pleased to announce that with Volume 31 (2010) Documentary Editing, formerly a quarterly publication, becomes an annual journal.*

Articles

• Experiencing Women’s History as a Documentary Editor, Ann D. Gordon
• The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition, Noelle A. Baker and Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
• “Dangerous Thoughts”: Margaret Sanger’s World Trip Journal, Japan, 1922, Peter C. Engelman
• Models of Digital Documentation: The Nineteenth-Century Concord Digital Archive, Amy E. Earhart

Boydston Prize Winner

• The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition and the Full Scores that Never Were, Robert Broude

Review Essay

• Dearest …

Editing Sophia Peabody’S Cuba Journal: Travel, Recovery, And Interpretation, Jana L. Argersinger, Cheryl J. Fish

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Some collaborations are born out of chance encounters. For us, it happened at a recent conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Having briefly met before on the common ground of studies in nineteenth- century American literature, we said “Hello” and discovered in the space of a five-minute conversation that both of us had our eyes on the early nineteenth- century journal-account of a young New Englander’s rest cure in Cuba. The traveler who authored the journal was Sophia Amelia Peabody (1809–1871), an accomplished visual artist, writer, member of a family that was vitally involved in …

Review Of Irish Immigrants In The Land Of Canaan: Letters And Memoirs From Colonial And Revolutionary America, 1675–1815. Written And Edited By Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, And David N. Doyle., James M. Perry

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Irish Diaspora and the influx of Irish immigrants to North America have received much attention in recent decades. The multitudes of Irish- Catholics arriving in the middle nineteenth century in the aftermath of Ireland’s Potato Famine have received the majority of this scholarly attention. In Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan, Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle tackle an often overlooked aspect of the Irish migration to North America, the largely Protestant immigrants arriving before the American Revolution and in its immediate aftermath. Using letters, and occasionally other sources such as personal …

Review Of The Papers Of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents And Cases. Edited By Daniel W. Stowell, Susan Krause, John A. Lupton, Stacy Pratt Mcdermott, Christopher A. Schnell, Dennis E. Suttles, Kelley B. Clausing, And R. Dan Monroe., Anthony M. Joseph

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Lincoln’s long career as a lawyer has been as much the subject of winsome anecdote as comprehensive scholarly study—an unhappy balance caused in part by the lack of readily accessible documents bearing on his practice. That problem, however, was remedied in stunning fashion with the publication in 2000 of the massive digital edition of Lincoln’s legal papers, The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (LPAL). The LPAL produced more than 96,000 searchable documents spanning over 5,000 cases and nearly 500 nonlitigation activities through the course of Lincoln’s legal career. The present selective letterpress edition in four volumes continues the same tradition …