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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 Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
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.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
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.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Related Material
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.
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Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
John E. Hart Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Finding Aid Information
Created by: KM
Date: Feb 1998
Revision history: 7 Nov 2005 - EAD file created (MRR);
13 Nov 2017 - additions (MS)
Inventory
| Correspondence-subject files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Aldridge, John W. 1972, 1975 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | re: Appel, Benjamin 1985, 1990 | ||||||||||
| See also Folsom, Franklin. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Appel, Willa 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Atwood, Cole 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Brown, Leonard 1941 | ||||||||||
| 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 | Folsom, Franklin 1972-1977, 1986 - includes photocopies of letters of Ben Appel | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harper, Carol Ely 1949, 1957-1958, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Indiana University Writers' Conference 1948 | ||||||||||
| 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" - manuscript | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Black and White Together: Organizing in the South with the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (FTA-CIO) 1946-1952" - manuscript | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "The Functional Approach" - ms. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Syracuse 1937-1942" - manuscript, drafts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "Syracuse 1942 -- Denou[e]ment: Six Letters from Leonard Brown" - manuscript | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Laughlin, James 1942-1947, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The New Yorker 1942, 1944 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Odenwaldschule 1950-1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pearce, Charles A. 1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Quarterly Review of Literature 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ransom, John Crowe 1948, 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Rejection letters 1942, 1946, 1948, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Shapiro, Karl Jay 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Swallow, Alan 1946-1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Syracuse University 1938, 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | University of Cambridge 1950-1951 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | University of Cincinnati 1946 | ||||||||||
| 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," Twentieth Century Literature Jan 1964 - with pen and ink revisions | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | "The Red Badge of Courage as Mythical Symbol," University of Kansas City Review summer 1953 | ||||||||||
| Notebooks | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Literary Criticism course with Leonard Brown 1940, 1949 (2 volumes) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Main Currents in American Literature course with Leonard Brown 1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Main Currents in Modern Literature course with Leonard Brown undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Modern Literature course with Leonard Brown 1941 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Renaissance Studies course with Leonard Brown 1939-1940 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Summer course with Leonard Brown, Malcolm Cowley, Kenneth Burke" undated | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Clippings 1993 - Albion College retirement honors, with program | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Clippings, Albion Reporter 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | McGraw-Hill Sound Seminars catalog undated | ||||||||||
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Experiment spring, summer 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Mark Twain Journal summer 1959, spring 1964, winter 1972 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tabard spring 1949, autumn 1949, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||