Project Essays

Theoretical, speculative, and documentary essays written by IATH fellows and staff about IATH projects and the issues they raise, or about electronic scholarship and culture more generally.

• Ed Ayers, (The Valley of the Shadow) - "The Augusta Archive"
• Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann, ("The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive") "Images as the Text. Pictographs and Pictographic Logic"
• Hoyt Duggan, (Piers Plowman Electronic Archive) - "Some Un-Revolutionary Aspects of Computer Editing"
• Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, (The William Blake Archive) - "The William Blake Archive: Editorial Principles: Methodology and Standards in the Blake Archive"
• Ed Folsom (The Walt Whitman Archive) - "Projecting Whitman: The Evolution and Remediation of The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman"
• Jerome McGann, ("The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive")
  • Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality Literature after the World Wide Web
  • Jerome McGann, The Rationale of HyperText
  • Jerome McGann, "Comp[u/e]ting Editorial F[u/ea]tures"
  • Jerome McGann and Lisa Samuels,"Deformance and Interpretation"
  • Jerome McGann, "Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine. Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading"
  • Jerome McGann,"Imagining What You Don't Know: The Theoretical Goals of the Rossetti Archive"
  • Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker, "The Ivanhoe Game: An Introduction"
  • Jerome McGann, "Rethinking Textuality"
  • Jerome McGann, "Visible and Invisible Books: Hermetic Images in N-Dimensional Space"
• Kenneth M. Price, (The Walt Whitman Archive)
  • Kenneth M. Price Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
  • Kenneth M. Price and Brett Barney "What I Assume You Shall Assume": The Whitman Archive and the Challenge of Integrating Different Open Standards
• Martha Nell Smith, (Dickinson Electronic Archive)
  • Martha Nell Smith, "The Importance of a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's Creative Work," The Emily Dickinson Journal IV.1 (1995)
  • Martha Nell Smith, "A Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's Creative Work", Part II: Musings on The Screen and The Book," The Emily Dickinson Journal V.2 (1996)
  • Martha Nell Smith, "Because the Plunge from the Front Overturned Us" : The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project Studies in the Literary Imagination 32:1 (Spring 1999).

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