The Walt Whitman Archive – Question 4
By
Mark A. Greene, Evan McGonagill, Kenneth M. Price, Claire Warwick, Edward Whitley
May 2013
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Disciplinarity and Disorder
The primal scene of archival research takes place in a dreary reading room. A researcher sits at her table, inert. An archivist enters, pushing a cart that bears a dozen dusty gray boxes. (See Figure 1.) The archivist unhinges a box, removes a numbered file folder and, placing it at the researcher’s elbow, steps back.…
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