LIT/LS. Literary Scholarship

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This collection contains notes, drafts, and research, including reprints from various literary journals, created and collected by Bob Williams. Williams wrote about Donald Davidson and John Tyree Fain, among other authors.

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This collection contains cassette tapes of Athena Book Club programs from the 1990s. Speakers are recorded talking about various literary subjects and figures. The Athena Book Club was based in Nashville.

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The Literary Portrait Collection, c. 1960-1980, contains two framed oil paintings of Vanderbilt literary figures: scholar Richard Croom Beatty, 1905-1961, and poet James Dickey, 1923-1997.

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The Houston Baker Papers, 1924-2020, consist of the correspondence, photographs, writings, and interviews of literary scholar Houston Alfred Baker, Jr., b. 1943.

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This collection contains six essays that represent the final research projects from six undergraduate students enrolled in Honors 181: "The Theory and Practice of Inter-American Literature", Spring 2002.

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This .21 linear feet collection contains 28 pieces of correspondence either by or about Arthur Mizener. The correspondence is arranged by year in 13 file folders. The subject matter ranges from publishing, to literary criticism, to poetry, to family, and health.

Scope and Contents The largest part of the collection consists of Xerox copies and page proofs of Dr. Young’s books: The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate (1974); The New Criticism and After (1977); and Gentleman in a Dustcoat (1976). This section also contains the longhand copy of Dr. Young’s Gentleman in a Dustcoat: A Biography of John Crowe...

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The Claude Lee Finney Papers, 1920-1950, consist of the lecture notes and research files of literary scholar Claude Lee Finney, 1896-1970.

Scope and Contents This collection is primarily comprised of 20 linear feet of manuscript materials, which include drafts of an unpublished novel with its title and text changes in various versions. The papers also include manuscripts of his novel Faces in a Nashville Arcade and of his biography of Charles Dahlgren, Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: The Civil War and Dynastic Decline. Professor Gower was a...

Scope and Contents The Ralph G. Morrissey Collection is largely composed of photographs of authors who were written about during Morrissey's tenure as a literary critic for the Nashville Tennessean. Ralph Morrissey took some of the photographs, and others were acquired through the book publishers. The majority of photographs are identified but are not dated with the actual date taken. Date references are the publication dates of a specific book (some press releases are...

Scope and Contents Note In 1985, Special Collections at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library acquired a collection of working papers from Noel Polk on his bibliography of Andrew Nelson Lytle. The Noel Polk/Andrew Lytle Collection was a generous donation made by Mr. Polk himself. This collection contains the working papers of Noel Polk, a literary scholar whose areas of specializations include: American literature, Southern writers, and Bibliographies. The materials housed in this collection relate to...

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These papers are contained in 22 Hollinger boxes comprising 9.174 linear feet of manuscript material and are made up of these series:

Writings

Academic Career

1956 Fugitive Reunion

Administrative Career

Writings by Others

Publications