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The silent novel in Radclyffe Hall’s ground-breaking The Well of Loneliness

June 13, 2017 - Steven Macnamara

Radclyffe Hall reading a newspaper. From the Radclyffe Hall Literary File at the Harry Ransom Center. Undated.

The English writer Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943) is best known for her lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). Pronounced obscene after a sensational and scandalous court case, it was banned [Read more…] about The silent novel in Radclyffe Hall’s ground-breaking The Well of Loneliness

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: British, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Fellowships, gender, lesbian, Radclyffe Hall, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge papers, Una Troubridge

Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

June 16, 2015 - Stephanie Jones

Christine Brooke-Rose in her WAAF uniform before she went to Bletchley Park. She is on the right, shown with three other women.

Stephanie Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Creative Writing Department at Aberystwyth University. At the Ransom Center, she analyzed the Christine Brooke-Rose papers for her dissertation, which is a single-author study on the writer, looking at the neglect of her work as a British author by the industry. Jones’s research was supported by a 2014–2015 Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center, jointly funded by the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies.

 

The subject of neglected British experimental authors has emerged as a poignant topic of critical discussion over the last few years. Writers of the 1960s and 1970s who had been influenced by the Second World War, as well as the highly reflexive, avant-garde literature produced bysuch modernist heavyweights as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Samuel Beckett, are beginning to be reassessed as having something useful to offer to the current critical climate. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Authors, Bletchley Park, Books, Christine Brooke-Rose, Christine Brooke-Rose Society, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Ezra Pound, Fellows Find, Fellowships, James Joyce, literature, modernism, Natalie Ferris, Research, Samuel Beckett, Stephanie Jones, The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies

Harry Ransom Center Awards 70 Fellowships

May 26, 2015 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Harry Ransom Center has awarded 70 research fellowships for 2015–2016.

The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Ransom Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials.

[Read more…] about Harry Ransom Center Awards 70 Fellowships

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Studies, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Fellowships, Research, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies

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