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S.P.G. Documentary Material on Australia, 1788-1900.
No full textThe article discusses a microfilm project related to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (S.P.G.), co-sponsored by the Rutgers Library and the Library of the University of Southern California. McCulloch elaborates on the material related to Australia as significant historial documents
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Tragic Portrait
No full textSang's tragic portait is based primarily on 18 letters by Mary Tood Lincoln written from 1840 to 1876, from a time before her marriage to Abraham Lincoln through her tragic days after the assassination of the president. The letters are transcribed in full
Library History Materials at Rutgers, including Archives Relating to the New Jersey College for Women Library School and the Founding of the Rutgers Graduate School for Library and Information Studies
No full textRoebling's Sixth Bridge, "Neversink"
No full textBooth provides the background of John A. Roebling's construction of his six bridge/aqueduct in completed in 1851 for the Delaware and Hudson Canal across the Neversink River at Cuddebackville, New York
How Cleanth Brooks Read his Seventeenth Century News Letter: James Marshall Osborn, Joseph Milton French, and the Organization of English as a Profession in Mid-Century America
No full textThe founding of the Seventeenth Century News Letter, publishedNew Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1942–1951 and described in the Yale University Library online catalog as a “Quarterly (irregular),” marks a particular moment in English literature as a profession in mid-twentieth century America. The original newsletter offers a glimpse into the organization of literary scholarship in the period, and the practices by which English literature as a professional community functioned. This period, with its battles over the centrality of literary criticism and literary history, and with the heated opposition to successive fashions in literary theory, has been usefully studied, and within the context of Yale in particular, by Gerald Graff. Yet there are spheres of literary scholarship which Graff’s study does not address, in part through its focus on the workings of academic departments, and their courses and curricula, in university English departments. Important professional spaces—the library, most notably—andpractices, such as collecting and corresponding, are excluded fromthis study. These are precisely the spheres occupied by Osborn andhis colleagues in this period. This paper turns to two examples of Osborn’s work as a literary scholar and collector in the 1940s, to illustrate the networks by which professional practice was governed,and complicated, in English literature in mid-century America. In the imagined community of seventeenth-century scholarship found in the Seventeenth Century News Letter, and the collaboration between Osborn and literary critic Cleanth Brooks on a scholarly edition, one finds a lived experience of English literature which was by no means as polarized, as exclusionary, as that portrayed by Graff and others
Five Letters of Henry James
No full textKirk transcribes five letters by Henry James contained in the Symington Collection to Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890); William Barclay Squire ( 1855-1927); Edmund Gosse (1849-1928); and Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards (1836-1919)
American Heritage
No full textBezanson praises the "America Heritage, " calling it one of the happiest ventures in publishing in a long time, because it has no advertising and historical scholars writing for the general public in an entertaining and even witty style