What are Masterpieces of Scholarly Editing and Why are there so Few of Them?: The Art/Science of Digital Editing and the (Re)Making of [Modernist] American(s)/Text(s)

Tanya Clement
Ph.D. exam reading list

Director: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Exam Date: November 7, 2005

    List One: American Literature 1836-1936

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature" (1836)
  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The American Scholar" (1837)
  3. Edgar Allan Poe: "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838)
  4. James Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer (1840)
  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The Poet" (1844)
  6. Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
  7. Margaret Fuller: Woman in the nineteenth Century (1845)
  8. Emily Dickinson: selected poems and letters1
  9. Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven" (1845
  10. Edgar Allan Poe: "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846)
  11. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Scarlet Letter (1850)2
  12. Melville, Herman : Moby Dick (1851)
  13. Stowe, Harriet Beecher : Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)3
  14. Fanny Fern: Ruth Hall (1854)
  15. Henry Thoreau : Walden (1854)
  16. Jacobs, Hariett: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
  17. Constance Fenimore Woolson: "Felipa" (1876)
  18. Constance Fenimore Woolson: "Miss Grief" (1880 )
  19. Henry James: "The Art of Fiction" (1884)
  20. Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)4
  21. William Dean Howells: The Rise of Silas Laptham (1885)
  22. Mark Twain: "Reply to the Editor of `The Art of Authorship'" (1890)
  23. Mary Wilkins Freeman: "The New England Nun" (1891)
  24. William Dean Howells: "Criticism and Fiction" (1891)
  25. Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself"5
  26. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
  27. Stephen Crane: "Maggie--Girl of the Streets" (1893)6
  28. Alice James: The Diary of Alice James (1894)
  29. Mark Twain: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
  30. Sarah Orne Jewett: Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
  31. Kate Chopin: The Awakening (1899)
  32. William Dean Howells: "Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading: An Impersonal Explanation" (1899)
  33. Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie (1900)
  34. Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery (1901)
  35. W.E.B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
  36. Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905)
  37. Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
  38. Henry James: Portrait of a Lady (1908)
  39. Henry James: "Daisy Miller" (1909)
  40. Gertrude Stein: Three Lives (1909)
  41. James Weldon Johnson: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
  42. H.D. "Hermes of the Ways" (1913)
  43. Ezra Pound: "In a station of the metro" (1913)
  44. Gertrude Stein: "Sacred Emily" (1913)
  45. Robert Frost: "After Apple Picking" (1914) and "Mending Wall" (1914)
  46. Mina Loy: "Joyce's Ulysses" (20-22), "Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots" and "One O'Clock at Night" (1915)
  47. H.D.: "Oread" and "Sea Rose" (1915)7
  48. T.S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
  49. Mina Loy: "The ineffectual marriage" (1920)
  50. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1922)8
  51. Wallace Stevens: "Anecdote of the Jar" and "Sunday Morning" (1923)9
  52. William Carlos Williams: Spring and All (1923)
  53. Marianne Moore: Observations (1924)10
  54. Willa Cather: The Professor's House (1925)
  55. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
  56. Ernest Hemingway: In our Time (1925)
  57. Alain Locke: The New Negro (1925)
  58. Gertrude Stein: The Making of Americans: being a history of a family's progress (1925)
  59. Gertrude Stein: "Composition as Explanation" (1926)
  60. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
  61. Nella Larsen: Passing (1929)
  62. Ezra Pound: A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)
  63. e.e. cummings: "oil tel duh woil doi sez" (1931)
  64. Gertrude Stein: Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
  65. Ezra Pound: The ABC of Reading (1934)
  66. Zora Neale Hurston: Mules and Men (1935)
  67. Wallace Stevens: "The Idea of Order at Key West" (1935)
  68. William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom (1936)11
  69. Djuna Barnes: Nightwood (1936)12
  70. Gertrude Stein: "What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them" (1936)

    1. In "Dickinson Electronic Archives" edited by Martha Nell Smith et al. (updated 2005)
    2. Second edition
    3. In "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture" directed by Stephen Railton (updated 2005)
    4. In Mark Twain in His Times directed by Stephen Railton (updated 2001)
    5. In 1891-1892 Edition of Leaves of Grass in Kenneth M. Price, Ed Folsom, et al., "The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive"
    6. In The University of Virginia Edition of the Works of Stephen Crane: Vol. I: Bowery Tales: Maggie, George's Mother edited by Fredson Bowers (1969)
    7. In Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology
    8. In The Facsimile Edition edited by Valerie Eliot (1974)
    9. In Harmonium
    10. In Becoming Marianne Moore : the early poems, 1907-1924 edited by Robin G. Schulze (2002)
    11. In Absalom, Absalom! Electronic, Interactive! Chronology directed by Stephen Railton (updated 2003)
    12. In the Dalkey Archive Edition (1995)

    List Two: Textual Studies 1936-2005

  71. Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)
  72. Alan Turing: "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (1936)
  73. Vannevar Bush: "As We May Think" (1945)
  74. W.W. Greg: "The Rationale of Copy-text" (1950-51)
  75. D.C. Engelbart: "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" (1962)
  76. Fredson Bowers: Bibliography and Textual Criticism (1964)
  77. Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962)
  78. Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media: The extensions of Man (1964)
  79. Roland Barthes: "The 'Death' of the Author" and "From Work to Text" (1977)
  80. Michel Foucault: "What is an Author" (1978)
  81. G. Thomas Tanselle: Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979)
  82. Stanley Fish: "Is there a text in this class?" (1980)
  83. Jean Baudrillard: Simulations (1983)
  84. Jerome McGann: A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (1983)
  85. Hershel Parker: Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction (1984)
  86. Gerard Genette: Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (1987)
  87. Shari Benstock: The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings (1988)
  88. G. Thomas Tanselle: A Rationale of Textual Criticism (1989)
  89. Raymond Williams: The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists (1989)
  90. G. Thomas Tanselle: Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing (1990)
  91. Shari Benstock: Textualizing the Feminine: Essays on the Limits of Genre (1991)
  92. George Bornstein, ed.: Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation (1991)
  93. Donna J. Haraway: "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991)
  94. Jerome McGann: Textual Condition (1991)
  95. Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies: the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994)
  96. Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy: Technologizing the Word (1993)
  97. Johanna Drucker: The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (1994)
  98. Jerome McGann "The Rationale of Hypertext" (1994)
  99. Leigh Gilmore: Autobiographics: a Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994)
  100. Joseph Grigley: Textualterity: art, theory and textual criticism (1995)
  101. Jacques Derrida: Archive Fever: A Freudian impression (translated 1996)
  102. Peter Shillingsburg: Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practice (1996)
  103. Espen Aarseth: Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergotic Literature (1997)
  104. Friedrich Kittler: Language, Media, Information Systems (translated 1997)
  105. George Landow: Hypertext 2.0: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology (1997)
  106. Johanna Drucker: Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics (1998)
  107. D.C. Greetham: Textual Transgressions: Essays towards the Construction of a Biobibliography (1998)
  108. N. Katherine Hayles: How we became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999)
  109. Friedrich Kittler: Gramophone, film, typewriter (1999)
  110. D.F. McKenzie: Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (1999)
  111. N. Katherine Hayles: Writing Machines (2000)
  112. George Bornstein: Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page (2001)
  113. Jay Bolter and Richard Gruisin: Writing Space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print (2001)
  114. John Bryant: Fluid Text: a Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen (2002)
  115. Lev Manovich: The Language of New Media (2001)
  116. Elizabeth Bergmann Louizeaux and Neil Fraistat, Eds. Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print (2002)
  117. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: "Editing the Interface" (2002)
  118. D.F. McKenzie: Making meaning : "Printers of the mind" and other essays (2002)
  119. Susan Schreibman and Ray Seimens ed.: Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (2004)
  120. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: "'Every Contact Leaves a Trace': Computers Forensics and Electronic Textuality" (2005)
  121. Martha Nell Smith: "Taking the "man" out of Humanties: How Feminism and Technology are Transforming the Discipline" (2005)