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A Few Missing Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Matthew J. Bruccoli
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Ernest Hemingway said it:—“A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts. ... A thousand years makes economics silly and a work of art endures forever.” But works of literature endure in printed texts that become cumulatively corrupt. The definitive editions of the Center for Editions of American Authors restore and preserve the purity of the author's work.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , September 1971 , pp. 587 - 589
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1971

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Notes

* This paper was delivered in an earlier form at the National Endowment for the Humanities press conference, 10 December 1970.

1 The CEAA is affiliated with the Modern Language Association of America and the American Literature Section of the MLA, and is supervised by an Executive Committee (James F. Beard, Clark Univ.; Norman S. Grabo, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Harrison Hayford, Northwestern Univ.; James B. Meriwether, Univ. of South Carolina; G. Thomas Tanselle, Univ. of Wisconsin; and Michael Millgate, Univ. of Toronto. Former members of the Executive Committee are: William M. Gibson, New York Univ. [Director]; Edwin Cady, Indiana Univ.; Gay Wilson Allen, New York Univ.; Henry Nash Smith, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Richard Beale Davis, Univ. of Tennessee; and Willard Thorp, Princeton Univ.) The headquarters of the Director, Matthew J. Bruccoli, are at the Univ. of South Carolina.

2 CEAA texts have been reprinted by the following publishers: Charles E. Merrill, Imprint Society, Norton, World, Bobbs-Merrill, Harper & Row, Viking, Penguin. Indiana Univ. Press, Northwestern Univ. Press-Newberry Library, and the Univ. of California Press have published their own paperbacks.

3 Associated editions are not eligible for NEH funding, but they meet CEAA standards and are vetted for the seal. Fourteen volumes of these Associated editions have been published or sealed to date: The Early Works of John Dewey—Southern Illinois Univ. Press (4 volumes); The Writings of Herman Melville—Northwestern Univ. Press-Newberry Library (Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Redburn, Pierre); The Writings of William Gilmore Simms—Univ. of South Carolina Press (Voltmeier, Stories and Tales, Paddy McGatm and As Good As a Comedy); Mark Twain's Works—Univ. of Iowa-Univ. of California Press (Roughing It). The James Fenimore Cooper edition—State Univ. of New York Press, has recently started work.

4 CEAA Funded Volumes Published (March 1971)

Stephen Crane: Univ. Press of Virginia Bowery Tales

Tales of Whilomville

Tales of War

Tales of Adventure

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Harvard Univ. Press The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, Vols. i–Viii. Only Vols. vii and viii were published with the CEAA seal. The first six volumes were published before the seal was instituted.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Ohio State Univ. Press The Scarlet Letter (retroactively sealed)

The House of the Seven Gables (retroactively sealed)

William Dean Howells: Indiana Univ. Press The Blithedale Romance and Fanshawe (retroactively sealed)

The Marble Faun

Our Old Home

Their Wedding Journey

Literary Friends and Acquaintance

The Altrurian Romances

The Son of Royal Langbrith

The Shadow of a Dream and An Imperative Duty

Washington Irving: Univ. of Wisconsin Press Journals and Notebooks, Vol. i

Journals and Notebooks, Vol. iii

Mahomet

Mark Twain: Univ. of California Press Satires and Burlesques (published before the CEAA seal was instituted)

Which Was the Dream and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years

Letters to His Publishers

Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers

Walt Whitman: New York Univ. Press Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Hannibal, Huck & Tom

Correspondence, 5 vols.

Early Poems and Fiction

Prose Works, 2 vols.

Leaves of Grass (Reader's Edition)

All volumes published or in progress before the CEAA seal was instituted.

5 CEAA Funded Volumes Sealed and in Press (March 1971)

Stephen Crane: Univ. Press of Virginia The O'Ruddy

Reports of War

William Dean Howells: Indiana Univ. Press The Rise of Silas Lapham

Indian Summer

The Kentons

A Chance Acquaintance

Years of My Youth

Washington Irving: Univ. of Wisconsin Press Oldstyle-Salmagundi

Henry David Thoreau: Princeton Univ. Press Walden

Maine Woods

Mark Twain Papers: Univ. of California Press Mark Twaitts Fables of Man