Whitman and the City:


Internet Resources

The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive is an excellent site. It offers a wealth of primary sources--all editions of Leaves of Grass, contemporary reviews, photographs of Whitman--as well as secondary sources and teaching units. The site is large and will reward extensive explorations.
(URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman)

Worlds Visible and Invisible is a site rich with images of the publishing world of nineteenth-century New York City, and with suggestive connections between Whitman's poetry and the city of New York and the world of print, "whose institutions, technologies, processes, and conceptual logic he internalized during his black-fingered days as a printer, then subsequently retained during his immediate pre-Leaves of Grass years as an urban journalist and many-handed agent of the press." The site makes it possible to discover "connections between the fast-paced urban world of mid-century New York, its proliferating print industry, the man who loved to walk its streets and frequents its shops and stores, and the 1855 Leaves of Grass.
(URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/hyper/walt.htm

The Three Cities Project is the project web site for a research project at the Universities of Nottinghman and Birmingham on "Literary and Visual Representations of Three American Cities, 1870s to 1930s." The research project will primarily create traditional materials--conferences, papers, books--but it also hopes to publish a CD-ROM (no sooner than the year 2000) and to maintain this web site as a forum for discussions about urban studies and also for information and resources on relevant exhibits, conferences, and new publications. There is a project page that surveys important theoretical considerations in the field of city studies, and a page for each city--New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. The individual city pages should, once developed, become rich sites for researchers working on these cities. Although the site is only in its initial stage of development, it promises to be an important site for research on American cities.
(URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities)


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