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)
Walt Whitman and the Publishing World 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)
