Bohemian Bureaucrat Making Sense of Walt Whitman’s Scribal Documents

The essay presented here served as the presidential address at the Society for Textual Scholarship conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park, June 1, 2017. It considers the implications for editing and criticism of Walt Whitman of the fairly recent discovery of approximately 3,000...

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Published inTextual cultures : text, contexts, interpretation Vol. 11; no. 1/2; pp. 1 - 16
Main Author Price, Kenneth M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Indiana University Press 01.12.2017
Society for Textual Scholarship
Subjects
Attorneys general
Bureaucracy
Civil wars
Government bureaucracy
Handwriting
Love poetry
Poetry
Presidential Address from the 2017 Meeting of the Society
Public administration
Soldiers
United States government publications
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Summary:The essay presented here served as the presidential address at the Society for Textual Scholarship conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park, June 1, 2017. It considers the implications for editing and criticism of Walt Whitman of the fairly recent discovery of approximately 3,000 documents in his handwriting produced when he was clerk in the Attorney General’s Office. For the most part, I have retained the tone and relative informality of a spoken presentation; I have also retained references to topical events.
ISSN:1559-2936
1933-7418