Matt Cohen is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is editor of The New Walt Whitman Studies and author of The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Minnesota, 2022). Kenneth M. Price is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is author and editor of several books, including Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City and The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman. Caterina Bernardini is lecturer in the English Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive. She is author of Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870–1945.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini Part I. Transformations of Textual Scholarship 1. Distant Editing: The Challenges of Computational Methods to the Theory and Practice of Textual Scholarship Elena Pierazzo 2. Beyond Social Editing: Peer-to-Peer Systems for Digital Editions Julia Flanders 3. Creative Ecologies: The Complete Works Edition in a Digital Paradigm Dirk Van Hulle 4. Charles W. Chesnutt and the Generous Edition: Collations, Annotations, and Genetic Histories Stephanie P. Browner 5. Computational Literary Studies and Scholarly Editing Fotis Jannidis 6. The Walt Whitman Archive at a Quarter of a Century Ed Folsom Part II. The Convergence of Digital Archiving and Scholarly Editing 7. Digital Archival Ethics: Representation, Access, and Care in Digital Environments K.J. Rawson 8. Categories of Freedom: Colored Conventions, End-Movement Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century Black Protest Tradition Sarah Lynn Patterson 9. Not Reading the Edition Cassidy Holahan, Aylin Malcolm, and Whitney Trettien 10. Indigenous Publishing, Scholarly Editing, and the Digital Future Robert Warrior 11. Preserving the Walt Whitman Archive Nicole Gray 12. Unsilent Springs: Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds Marta L. Werner Afterword John Unsworth Contributors Index

Matt Cohen is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is editor of The New Walt Whitman Studies and author of The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Minnesota, 2022). Kenneth M. Price is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is author and editor of several books, including Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City and The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman. Caterina Bernardini is lecturer in the English Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive. She is author of Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870–1945.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini Part I. Transformations of Textual Scholarship 1. Distant Editing: The Challenges of Computational Methods to the Theory and Practice of Textual Scholarship Elena Pierazzo 2. Beyond Social Editing: Peer-to-Peer Systems for Digital Editions Julia Flanders 3. Creative Ecologies: The Complete Works Edition in a Digital Paradigm Dirk Van Hulle 4. Charles W. Chesnutt and the Generous Edition: Collations, Annotations, and Genetic Histories Stephanie P. Browner 5. Computational Literary Studies and Scholarly Editing Fotis Jannidis 6. The Walt Whitman Archive at a Quarter of a Century Ed Folsom Part II. The Convergence of Digital Archiving and Scholarly Editing 7. Digital Archival Ethics: Representation, Access, and Care in Digital Environments K.J. Rawson 8. Categories of Freedom: Colored Conventions, End-Movement Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century Black Protest Tradition Sarah Lynn Patterson 9. Not Reading the Edition Cassidy Holahan, Aylin Malcolm, and Whitney Trettien 10. Indigenous Publishing, Scholarly Editing, and the Digital Future Robert Warrior 11. Preserving the Walt Whitman Archive Nicole Gray 12. Unsilent Springs: Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds Marta L. Werner Afterword John Unsworth Contributors Index

Matt Cohen is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is editor of The New Walt Whitman Studies and author of The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Minnesota, 2022). Kenneth M. Price is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is author and editor of several books, including Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City and The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman. Caterina Bernardini is lecturer in the English Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive. She is author of Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870–1945.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini Part I. Transformations of Textual Scholarship 1. Distant Editing: The Challenges of Computational Methods to the Theory and Practice of Textual Scholarship Elena Pierazzo 2. Beyond Social Editing: Peer-to-Peer Systems for Digital Editions Julia Flanders 3. Creative Ecologies: The Complete Works Edition in a Digital Paradigm Dirk Van Hulle 4. Charles W. Chesnutt and the Generous Edition: Collations, Annotations, and Genetic Histories Stephanie P. Browner 5. Computational Literary Studies and Scholarly Editing Fotis Jannidis 6. The Walt Whitman Archive at a Quarter of a Century Ed Folsom Part II. The Convergence of Digital Archiving and Scholarly Editing 7. Digital Archival Ethics: Representation, Access, and Care in Digital Environments K.J. Rawson 8. Categories of Freedom: Colored Conventions, End-Movement Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century Black Protest Tradition Sarah Lynn Patterson 9. Not Reading the Edition Cassidy Holahan, Aylin Malcolm, and Whitney Trettien 10. Indigenous Publishing, Scholarly Editing, and the Digital Future Robert Warrior 11. Preserving the Walt Whitman Archive Nicole Gray 12. Unsilent Springs: Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds Marta L. Werner Afterword John Unsworth Contributors Index