Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Hart, John E. |
| Title: | John E. Hart Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1939-1993 |
| Quantity: | .5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, writings and memorabilia of American literary scholar John E. Hart. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Spanning 1939 to 1993, the John E. Hart Papers comprises correspondence, writings and memorabilia of the American literary scholar who taught for 28 years at Albion College. While pursuing advanced degrees (M.A. '40, Ph.D. '54) at Syracuse University, Hart was a student of professor of English Leonard Brown, an innovator in the application of Freudian and Marxian principles to literary critical theory. Reflecting not only Hart's relationships with publishers and authors, the collection also illuminates academic teaching at Syracuse University during the turbulent period just before the Second World War.
Arranged alphabetically, the Correspondence-Subject Files includes incoming letters, manuscripts and printed material. Correspondence includes that of editors (James Laughlin, Charles A. Pearce, John Crowe Ransom, Alan Swallow, Theodore Weiss, Edmund Wilson); novelists (Cole Atwood, Eudora Welty); and poets (Tom Dryce, Carol Ely Harper) associated with with Experiment, one of the many small literary quarterlies which flourished between the post-War period and the mid-sixties. Letters and manuscripts from former fellow Syracuse University student Karl Korstad document the changing academic climate between the 1930s and the McCarthy era.
Five notebooks from his course work with Leonard Brown constitute the bulk of Hart's Writings.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Issues of Experiment are among the Library's cataloged rare book collections.
Additional material relating to Leonard Brown may be found among the Library's collection of his Papers.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
John E. Hart Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Created by: KM
Date: Feb 1998
Revision history: 7 Nov 2005 - EAD file created (MRR)
| Correspondence-subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Atwood, Cole 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dryce, Tom 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Embler, Weller 1948 - "What Every Engineer Should Know" (offprint, inscribed) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Experiment 1949-1950, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harper, Carol Ely 1949, 1957-1958, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Kenyon Review 1948-1950 | ||||||||||
| Korstad, Karl 1991-1992 | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "The Attacks on 'Multiculturalism' are Political: Part of the Drive for Continued American Hegemony" - ms. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Black and White Together: Organizing in the South with the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (FTA-CIO) 1946-1952" - ms. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "The Functional Approach" - ms. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Syracuse 1937-1942" - ms., drafts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Syracuse 1942 -- Denou[e]ment: Six Letters from Leonard Brown" - ms. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Laughlin, James 1942-1947, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The New Yorker 1942, 1944 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pearce, Charles A. 1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Quarterly Review of Literature 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ransom, John Crowe 1948, 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Shapiro, Karl Jay 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Swallow, Alan 1946-1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Weiss, Theodore Russell 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Welty, Eudora 1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Wilson, Edmund 1944 | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Essays | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Albert Halper's World of the Thirties - Published in Twentieth Century Literature, Jan. 1964 (with pen and ink revisions) | ||||||||||
| Notebooks | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1939-40 Renaissance Studies course with Leonard Brown (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | n.d. Main Currents in Modern Literature course with Leonard Brown (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | n.d. "summer course with Leonard Brown, Malcolm Cowley, Kenneth Burke" | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clippings 1993 - Albion College retirement honors (with program) | ||||||||||
