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Book SynopsisThis edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modernists, cryptologists, and education reformers. These pioneers crafted interdisciplinary partnerships as they modeled and advocated for cooperative alliances at every level of their work and in all their academic relationships. Their extensive network of intellectual partnerships made possible groundbreaking projects, from the eight-volume Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940) to the deciphering of the Waberski Cipher, yet, except for their Chaucer work, their many other accomplishments have received little attention. Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy not only surveys the rich range of their work but also emphasizes the transformative intellectual and pedagogical benefits of collaboration.
Table of Contents1 Marvelous Equipment: The Collaborations and Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert 2 Finding Connection in the Nomadic Life of Scholarship:John Matthews Manly’s Letters and Unpublished Essays 3 Edith Rickert and the New Woman Movement 4 Edith Rickert’s Network of Women Editors5 From Philology to Formalism: Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and the Literary/Reformist Beginnings of U.S. Cryptology 6 John Matthews Manly and the Riverbank Laboratory Network: The Fabyan and Friedman Correspondence7 John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert: Cryptologists 8 “Do You Like to Write? Probably Not”: The Politics of Self-Expression in the Composition Pedagogy of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert 9 “Since Significant Contributions to Knowledge Are Not Expected in School Texts”: The Textbooks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert 10 “Where the Bojabi Tree Grows”: Re-Seeing Modernist Words and Pictures in Edith Rickert’s Forgotten Children’s Books 11 Chaucer Laboratory or Vaudeville House? John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert’s Chaucer Project, and their University of Chicago Assistants 12 Academic Exhaustion and the Afterlife of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert
