HERE is a great piece in the Paris Review on the digital literary scholarship that led to the discovery of a previously unknown Walt Whitman novel by Zachary Turpin. The article includes a fantastic three part categorisation of literary researchers into three types: the archive rats (These chain-smoking, type-A cranks entered an archival collection, knew precisely the evidence they needed, and did everything but ransack the place to find it); the curious browsers (laid-back dreamers with a loosely generalized notion about what they sought.) and the surgical strikers (Soulless but engineered for accuracy.)
