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Folder 175: Contents from expandable file, Folder 1 of 4, 1967, 1984-1992

 File — Container: Box 9, Folder: 175

Scope and Contents

Various photocopies of essays and chapters from books on critical studies along with class notes from Melville Senior Seminar

Article; “The Politics of reading Billy Budd” by Geraldine Murphy from American Literary History, I 2 (Summer 1989), 361; annotated by Pfeil

See folder 178 for another copy of article

Article; Social Structures, author and origin of text unknown, annotated by Pfeil, 2 copies

Excerpt from “Ahab’s Queenly Personality” by David Leverenz from Manhood and the American Renaissance, New York, Cornell University Press, 1990, 279; annotated by Pfeil

Excerpts from Domestic Individualism—Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America by Gillian Brown, California, University of California Press, 1992; annotated by Pfeil

Notes on Melville by Pfeil

Article; “Notes on Empire for Liberty” Author and publication information unknown

Article; “Melville’s search for National Identity: Son and Father in Redburn, Pierre, and Billy Budd” by Sacvan Bercovitch from College Language Association Journal, X (1967) 217

Handwritten notes for Billy Budd

Article: “Pierre, or the Ambiguities of American Literary History” by Sacvan Bercovitch from Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, Rutledge, 1992, 246

Handout for Bartelby the Scrivener and Benito, annotated

Handwritten notes; “Questions on Cock-A-Doodle-Do, The Paradise of Bachelors…and I and my Chimney”

Handwritten notes; “Questions on Bartelby”

Handwritten notes; “Notes on Melville Stories”

Article; “The American Narcissus: Backgrounds of Culture” by Joyce W Warren from The American Narcissus; Individualism and Women in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1984 1

For more notes on Melville, see folders 176, 177, 178, 267

Dates

  • Creation: 1967, 1984-1992

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.

Extent

From the Collection: 23.5 Cubic Feet (23 records center cartons with 475 folders, and one flat box of oversized materials (box 24)) ; 1 box (16.25 in. x 13 in. x 10.5 in.) equals 1 cubic foot ("cubic foot" defined in SAA Dictionary) 1 flat box (2.5"H x 17"W x 20.75"D) equals .51 cubic feet (as defined by UNLV Archives Calculator)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Watkinson Library - Archival Collections Repository

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