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This site was produced by Trudy Mercer and Meg Roland as a project in Prof. Míceál Vaughan's graduate seminar in Hypertext and Textual Studies (Humanities 523) at the University of Washington. It was created on 7 May 1999 and remains under construction. The Seminar in Hypertext and Textual Studies is one of the four core courses in the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington. As part of the seminar, we worked in pairs or small groups to produce collaborative editions of texts selected by the participants. The site you are now viewing is our seminar project. We selected Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes in 1843 because of our interest in nineteenth-century literature by women, and because this work offers interesting opportunities for textual scholarship and hypertext reproduction. Our goal for this site is to produce reliable scholarly texts in hypertext format, and to provide primary online resources as well as links to other sites related to Margaret Fuller's life and work. Few web pages devoted to the work of Margaret Fuller currently provide both services. Our hope is to provide concise yet comprehensive information in a clear manner. Details on various aspects of the editing process and textual scholarship are available. Information on the site production is available below. Throughout the seminar, all the participants collaborated on producing on The Dido Site which will be revised by Prof. Vaughan at a later date for use by other classes.
Other group projects include:
For more information on work being done in the Textual Studies Program please visit the homepage for the Textual Studies Colloquium. |
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About the Editors |
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Meg Roland and Trudy Mercer are graduate students at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). As students in the Textual Studies Program, we have studied Textual Theory, and received practical experience in the scholarly editing of literature in English. We are also the coordinators for the Textual Studies Colloquium, a graduate student organization devoted to supporting the work and expanding the opportunities of students in the Textual Studies Program. We invite you to visit the Colloquium homepage for information about the Colloquium and the Program. |
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Trudy Mercer tmercer@u.washington.edu Home Page Meg Roland mroland@u.washington.edu Home Page |
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Meta-Edition |
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A transcription of the many email messages that flowed between the authors of this site serves as a meta-edition . Readers can follow our technical and theoretical discussions as we designed the electronic, parallel-text edition of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. |
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Copyright |
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Margaret Fuller's 1844 edition of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 and Arthur B. Fuller's 1856 edition of Summer on the Lakes are in the public domain. Use of the online versions is available to interested parties. We ask only that citation of these online editions be credited to the editors listed above. We claim copyright to the emendations in the 1856 edition and the supplementary resources provided on this site, except where credited to other sources.
June 7, 1999
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Backgrounds, images and fonts have been selected to make the text as accessible and reader friendly as possible. To keep some of the flavor of nineteenth-century editions of Summer on the Lakes, we have selected Times for titles and subtitles, and a hierarchical choice of Verdana, Arial, and Helvetica for the main text of the edition. Current browser technology means that these will be displayed according to your browser's options and the preferences you have selected. Please see the Markup Key for information on the use of font color in emendations to the 1856 edition. |
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Site Production and Technical Information |
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We have endeavored to produce a site that is easy to download and useful to as many viewers as possible. We offer a Frame Free version as our primary site. A fully annotated menu is available on our Home page, and an abbreviated menu is available in the Parallel Text frames version to permit navigation throughout the site. Each page offers a navigation table with links to all the primary pages or sections. The navigation tables are inserted through "inclusions" installed in our main directory. To make the text files manageable for downloading, Chapters III through VII of Summer on the Lakes have been divided into multiple files. These divisions in no way reflect Margaret Fuller's or Arthur Fuller's authorial or editorial intentions. The divisions were made purely for storage purposes and viewing ease. Wherever possible, we divided chapters where content or tone changed. The sections are noted in the Table of Contents on the Home page, but are not reflected in the abbreviated menu in the Parallel Texts version. The "previous" and "next" links provided on each page allow the viewer to advance through each version of the text without referring to a menu. The Parallel Text version provides two frames for the editions and one for the menu. Because it downloads in frames, this version may be slower loading than individual chapters or sections in the Frame Free version. The Parallel Text menu offers an abbreviated selection. Only links to the first section of each chapter are provided. Viewers can use the "previous" and "next" links to advance through the chapter. Links to all resources are available in the Parallel Text menu; however, only the texts of the two editions load into the parallel frames. All other pages load into a new window. This includes the etchings' pages. The size of the etchings means that the parallel frames makes viewing the images extremely limited. To return to the Parallel Texts from an etching page or our resource pages you must use the "back" button on your browser window or the Parallel Texts link provided in the navigation table. Choosing "Back to the 1844 Edition" or "Back to the 1856 Edition" on the etchings' pages will return the viewer to the text of the Frame Free version. Because browser window size varies, some distortion of the text may occur in small windows. Text in the Parallel Text frames is especially vulnerable to distortion. For this reason, we recommend that you size the Parallel Text window to fill your monitor screen. We elected not to use the "noresize" attribute in the frames. This means that the viewer can adjust the text frames or menu frame size by moving the bar between the two versions or between the upper and lower frames. The Menu frame has been sized at 20% of the window with scrolling enabled; the text frames are sized at 50% each of the remaining window. Emendations to the 1856 edition have been made using color fonts. Printing of this version is best done with a color printer. Please see the Markup Key for information on the emendations and the use of color. The HTML (version 4.0) tagging was produced using MS Word 5.1 on a PowerComputing PowerBase 200. The emendations for the 1856 edition were produced using Adobe PageMill 4.0. Images were scanned using PhotoShop 4.0. Pages have been viewed from multiple systems (PC and Macintosh) with different capabilities and memory storage, using Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Suggestions and comments are welcome and can be sent to either of the addresses below. |
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Trudy Mercer tmercer@u.washington.edu Department of English Textual Studies Program University of Washington Box 354330 Seattle, WA 98195-4330 |
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Meg Roland mroland@u.washington.edu Department of English Textual Studies Program University of Washington Box 354330 Seattle, WA 98195-4330 |
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