[Review of] Katherine Spencer Halpern, Mary E. Holt, and Susan Brown McGreevy.Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Washington Matthews Papers

Abstract

Today it is being argued that ethnology and literature intersect in some useful ways. Yet Washington Matthews demonstrated as much a century ago, before either of those disciplines had been developed within the American academic system. And although it has been overlooked, his achievement in having done so is considerable, as this potentially useful volume suggests