Research articles from project or that reflects project
Within the Project Publications page, I found the following article,
Cordell, Ryan C. “Reprinting, Circulation, and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers.” Reprinting, Circulation, and the Network Author in Antebellum Newspapers | Ryan C. Cordell, 21 May 2015, ryancordell.org/research/reprinting-circulation-and-the-network-author-in-antebellum-newspapers/.
I chose to highlight this article specifically because it gives a good overview that builds off of the knowledge I gained from the actual Viral Texts Project. It focuses on the sociology and culture of reprinting texts which I thought was a good addition to learning of the more data focused reading I had done previously.
“…this paradox develops in large part out of practical constraints: “[t]exts that circulated without authors’ names attached frequently remain unindexed and untraceable, as do authored texts that are published without their authors’ knowledge or consent.” It is precisely the hyper-canonical status of Hawthorne, Poe, and Dickens that allows McGill “to begin to recover the patterns of reprinting of their texts” (2, 42)” (Cordell 1).
