Event Title
Over the Roofs of the World: Politics of Freeness in Literary Digital Archives
Start Date
28-2-2015 1:00 PM
Description
The Walt Whitman Archive (http://www.whitmanarchive.org) is a digital editing environment that is free to access, university based, and competes with many other Whitman sites on the web. In terms of literary distribution, the Whitman Archive provides the opportunity to explore what we now know as a problematic issue regarding open access in the larger and longer frame of the history of free distribution of Whitman's work. Such free distribution stretches back to the poet's own time. Responding to Virginia Jackson's important argument about digital literary archives and literary criticism, this talk examines the free distribution of Whitman's work in the digital age.
Recommended Citation
Cohen, Matt (2015). "Over the Roofs of the World: Politics of Freeness in Literary Digital Archives," Digital Humanities Symposium.
Over the Roofs of the World: Politics of Freeness in Literary Digital Archives
The Walt Whitman Archive (http://www.whitmanarchive.org) is a digital editing environment that is free to access, university based, and competes with many other Whitman sites on the web. In terms of literary distribution, the Whitman Archive provides the opportunity to explore what we now know as a problematic issue regarding open access in the larger and longer frame of the history of free distribution of Whitman's work. Such free distribution stretches back to the poet's own time. Responding to Virginia Jackson's important argument about digital literary archives and literary criticism, this talk examines the free distribution of Whitman's work in the digital age.
