Your research strategy will differ according to the role you’re playing, but

• Iris and I will help you devise strategies in class to help you organize your moves,
• I’m pulling together some printed material we can access during class, and
• I’ve compiled some cites via Zotero (free/open bibliographic software you all should be using!).
• I’ve put some materials in a Chesnutt folder in FILES on our group page.
• I’ll also throw some links in documents for characters, paratextual figures, and Chesnutt himself here
• Don’t forget to use the basic research skills and sources that apply to all literary research. A good overview is here.
• Assorted links:
  • on stenography, you can read a big chunk of Leah Price’s chapter on “stereographic masculinity” via Google Books
  • Here’s her piece for TLS on stenography and the 19thC
  • This online archive compiles a bunch of reviews of Chesnutt’s work from his own era: very useful if you’re going to play a reviewer or even an editor or magazine publisher or common reader or Chesnutt himself.

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