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Style Matters: Applying--Egads!--Theory To Documentary Editing, Tracy Duvall

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

Historical editors rarely cite theory to justify particular editorial practices. Instead, they usually make appeals to common sense and personal experience. Of course, "eyeballing it" is legitimate, but documentary editors should inform themselves about linguistic and literary theory to create better-informed policies for transcription and translation. Increasing theoretical sophistication will lead editors to pay more attention to reproducing an author's style. (The hyphenation of re-producing is meant to remind the reader that transcription and translation are creative acts [thus, produce] but that this creativity is constrained by the goal of fidelity to the source text [thus, re-].)

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Cloistered Correspondence: Review Of When Prophecy Still Had A Voice: The Letters Of Thomas Merton And Robert Lax, Ed. Arthur W. Biddle., Claire Badaracco

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

The publication of these 346 letters over thirty years between Thomas Merton and his friend Robert Lax, who died in Olean, New York, three months before its publication, is timely, comprehensive, definitive, and a significant contribution to Merton studies. This is not light reading. Some of the correspondence is so encoded, privatized, and self-absorbed that the reader needs to compare the letters with the other works of the same period by these writers in order to make sense of things. The edition is scholarly, reliable, a solid addition to one's personal or university library, and highly recommended.

A Hybrid Edition For The Available Man: Review Of The Papers Of William Henry Harrison, 1800-1815,Ed. Douglas E. Clanin And Ruth Dorrel., William C. Digiacomantonio

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

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) is an early American example of that perennial political type, the "Available Man." How else to explain the success of a public figure whose first elective office (as territorial delegate to Congress) was won by a margin of one vote; whose fortunes as governor of the Indiana Territory (1801-1812) waned longer than they waxed; whose pinnacle of glory at Tippecanoe endures in the national memory more as a limerick than a battle; and who reaped the political dividends of that battle only after twenty-five years, in a presidential campaign waged primarily by the conspicuous avoidance of …

Association For Documentary Editing Life, Patron, Sustaining Members, And Contributors

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

The Association for Documentary Editing appreciates the contributions made to its general and specified funds through June 2001, and takes note also of those individuals whose 2001 membership is at the sustaining or patron level.

Ade Committees 2000-2001

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

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Nhprc Recommends Grants

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

At its meeting in May 2001, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission recommended grants of up to $2,898,008, including $1,989,089 for non-Founding era documentary editing projects and $31,993 for subventions of editions.

Ade Raleigh 2001

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

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Recent Editions--September 2001

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

This quarterly bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

Documentary Editing, Volume 23, Number 2, June 2001.

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

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Recent Editions--June 2001

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

This quarterly feature provides a bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture and is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

Documentary Editing, Volume 23, Number 2, June 2001--Front Matter

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Dollars And Sense In Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example Of The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive, Kenneth M. Price

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

One of the great advantages of the web is that there's a bunch of free stuff-that's the truism, anyway. But free stuff comes from somewhere, and it is rarely, if ever, free to produce. I am interested in exploring some of the costs of digital work, using as an example The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive, a project I co-direct with Ed Folsom Since 1995, many people, myself included, have described our site as free, yet a considerable amount of resources continue to go into its making. I want to explore that conundrum.

Ade Committees 2000-2001

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

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Hypertextile Scholarship: Digitally Editing The Bayeux Tapestry, Martin Kennedy Foys

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

The dilemma of studying the Tapestry is twofold. In traditional editions of the textile, the discursive limits of the printed page require either a sacrifice of narrative fluidity for detailed resolution, or the converse. Put another way, in a printed edition, "readers" of the Tapestry either are given the document in gloriously detailed, high-resolution plates that fragment the textile's continuity, or are faced with small-scale reproductions that capture large narrative blocks but lack any comprehensive magnified detail. Additionally, since its rediscovery in the 1720s and like any complex and canonical narrative expression, the Tapestry has generated hundreds of scholarly books …

Editing Dead Reptiles: The Tebtunis Papyri At The University Of California, Berkeley, Anthony Bliss

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

I am a curator, but some of my best friends are editors. I mostly edit myself. My collecting responsibilities cover roughly four thousand years of written history, so sometimes my focus is a little blurry. My own training harks back to the McKerrow-Greg-Bowers school of textual editing, but none of these three great editors prepared me for the challenge of handling thousands of papyri.

The Other Millennium: Review Of Yesterdays Future: The Twentieth Century Begins. Michael E. Stevens, Ed., George W. Geib

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

The widespread public interest and accompanying media hype surrounding the millennium celebrations of December 31, 1999, produced several interesting projects among historians and documentary editors. One of those is this slender volume, published in 1999 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Yesterday's Future uses the pen and eye of the print media of a century ago to look at one state's responses to the coming of a new century. Intended as part of a series, "Voices of the Wisconsin Past," the book is a selection of nearly one hundred reports and opinions offered to Wisconsin newspaper readers a hundred …

The Artist In His Autobiography: Review Of The Selected Papers Of Charles Willson Peale And His Family, Vol. 5, The Autobiography Of Charles Willson Peale, Ed. Lillian B. Miller, Sidney Hart, David C. Ward, Lauren E. Brown, Sara C. Hale, Leslie K. Reinhardt., Wendy Bellion

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

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) painted more self-portraits than did any other American artist of his generation. Between the outset of his career in the 1760s and his death in 1827, Peale depicted himself no fewer than twenty times. He cast himself in oil paints, clay, and wax; in miniature, half-length, and life-size; alone, with family, and with strangers; and as a soldier, husband, father, scientist, and painter. dearly, autobiography held an abiding interest for Peale. There is no better demonstration of this than The Artist in His Museum, a monumental painting commissioned by the trustees of Peale's Museum in 1822 …

Robert Allen Rutland, 1 October 1922-30 December 2000

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

Robert Allen Rutland, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and research professor of history at the University of Tulsa, died at his home in Tulsa on 30 December 2000 at the age of seventy-eight. He made original contributions in several fields-in early American politics, the Constitution, and documentary editing. As a mentor he inspired and encouraged his colleagues, particularly those who worked with him on the Papers of James Madison.

Documentary Editing, Volume 23, Number 1, March 2001.

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

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Two Hundred Years Of Acquiring The Fifty Years Of The Colonial Records Of Georgia: A Chapter In Failure In Historical Publication, Robert Scott Davis Jr.

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

In 1799, Georgia made the earliest attempt of any state to obtain copies of its colonial records from Europe. The history of its subsequent efforts to obtain and publish this earliest documentation well represents the problems and attempted solutions made by the many other such projects in the two centuries that followed. After all of the efforts to make its colonial records accessible, the state still does not have . a complete and credible publication of these records, and this goal remains elusive.

Part of the difficulty stems from decisions on editing, problems that originated in the acquisition of copies …

Wordsworth Senex: Review Of The Cornell Wordsworth: Last Poems, 1821-1850, Ed. Jared Curtis, With Associate Eds. April Lea Denny-Ferris And Jillian Heydt-Stevenson., Donald H. Reiman

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

The Cornell Wordsworth is one of the most ambitious and, on the whole, one of the most successful multi-volume literary editions of our time. Nearly forty years ago, General Editor Stephen M. Parrish and other senior Wordsworthians conceived the project as a way to rescue the reputation of William Wordsworth (WW) from what they regarded as his mistaken tendency to age his poems as though they were fine wine by repeatedly revising them (some for . nineteen years or more) before he finally released them for publication. An original aim of the Cornell Wordsworth was, therefore, to make available from …

Documentary Editing--Index To Volume 22

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

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Documentary Editing, Volume 23, Number 1, March 2001--Front Matter

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Nhprc November Meeting

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

At its November 14, 2000, meeting, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) recommended grants totaling up to $3.8 million for 47 projects. The Commission described competition for funding as "fierce," with requests under consideration at this meeting exceeding $8 million. While reaffirmning its support for the Founding Era documentary editions, the Commission noted a substantial increase in the number and quality of grant proposals in the State Board and Electronic Records Programs. The Commission was able to maintain last year's level of funding for the Founding Era documentary editing projects. However, the NHPRC Fellowship Programs in Archival Administration …

The Association For Documentary Editing, 2001 Ade Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina

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

Raleigh, North Carolina, will play host to the 24th annual meeting of the ADE, October 4-6, 2001. Centrally located on the Eastern Seaboard about halfway between New York and Florida--only a few hours from the beach or the mountains-Raleigh is in the middle of one of America's most beautiful states. One of the Southeast's best visitor destinations, it is North Carolina's capital city area as well as the center for history, culture, the arts, and education. Raleigh also is the largest city in a metropolitan area known as the Research Triangle. The area is home to more than twenty Free …

Recent Editions--March 2001

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

This quarterly feature provides a bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture and is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

Ade Committees 2000-2001

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

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Documentary Editing, Volume 22, Number 4, December 2000.

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

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Shifting Proslavery Ideology: Review Of Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings Of Zephaniah Kingsley, Ed. Daniel W. Stowell., Trenton Hizer

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

Balancing Evils Judiciously is a volume in which quality more than makes up for a lack of quantity, In this slender work, Daniel W Stowell, director and editor of the Lincoln Legal Papers, presents the unique proslavery writings of Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr., of Florida: eight letters, articles and documents by Kingsley, and one published letter by L. Maria Childs, the noted New York abolitionist with whom he was acquainted. Kingsley's few works on slavery would easily be lost in the volumes of antebellum proslavery writings, if not for the singular position he took on the peculiar institution. His personal experiences, …