• History of the Edition
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Products

In addition to developing an archive of primary and related print culture materials, our project will result in two different types of products: (1) six print publications or MLA CSE-approved volumes and (2) an electronic scholarly edition that expands the print version but is also searchable and supplemented by multimedia features.

- The print volumes will contain a selection of the most compelling works by Brown (for further scholarly use); this selection will include only texts in Category "A" of attribution. The print volumes will come with an MLA CSE-conformant scholarly apparatus and will be published by Kent State University Press.

- The electronic scholarly edition of the print volumes will also receive full scholarly editorial treatment relative to the principles and procedures currently specified by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) for electronic editions. The electronic edition will be fully searchable, integrated with Kent State's planned digital version of the Bicentennial Edition of Brown's novels, and usable by scholars in a variety of ways.

During all three phases of the project, the working website will reside on a dedicated server at the University of Central Florida, and the electronic edition will be generated there, in collaboration not only among the various editors and contributors affiliated with the project, but also with our colleagues at the Kent State University's Institute for Bibliography and Editing (IBE). Kent State University Press's Bicentennial Edition of Brown's novels and related works emerged from IBE and will be digitized there. Our goal is to develop a common interface with Kent State digital initiatives for the Bicentennial Edition and, ultimately, an electronic scholarly edition of all of Brown's work.