July 22, 2014, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRansom Center acquires Jon R. Jewett collection of Elizabeth Hardwick materials The Ransom Center recently acquired a collection of letters and photographs relating to novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007), co-founder of The New York Review of Books and one of the most brilliant literary critics of the late-twentieth century. The newly acquired material complements Elizabeth Hardwick’s archive, which she donated… read more
July 17, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Samuel Beckett’s radio plays Pim Verhulst of the University of Antwerp visited the Ransom Center to work with the Samuel Beckett papers, in particular the radio plays and related correspondence. His research, funded by a dissertation fellowship, seeks to bring together all the existing draft versions in a digital space and study the writing… read more
July 15, 2014, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellows Find: Determining audience taste in eighteenth-century English theater Diana Solomon, associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University, worked with the Ransom Center’s collections of eighteenth-century English playbills and promptbooks. Jointly supported by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Studies Fellowship, her research will be utilized in her current book project on comedy and repetition… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsHigh Museum of Art’s “Dream Cars” exhibition features drawings, designs from Norman Bel Geddes collection “We dream of cars that will float or fly, or run on energy from a laser beam, or travel close to the ground without wheels. Such research may border on the fantastic, but so did the idea of a carriage going about the country without a horse.” –The Ford Book… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsNow open at the Wolfsonian: “I Have Seen The Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America” The exhibition I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America is now open at the Wolfsonian at Florida International University in Miami Beach, Florida. Pulled mostly from the Ransom Center’s Bel Geddes archive, the exhibition originated in fall 2012 at the Ransom Center and was on view earlier… read more
July 10, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmCelebrating the films of the First World War The Harry Ransom Center’s current exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918 marks the centennial anniversary of the start of World War I. “The war to end all wars,” as it was optimistically dubbed, was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and paved the way for cultural and political change… read more
