Inventory of the Sacvan Bercovitch Papers, 1940-1995
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleSacvan Bercovitch Papers,
1940-1995
Creator
Bercovitch, Sacvan
Extent
9.6 Linear Feet
7225 Items
Repository
7225 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sacvan Bercovitch Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The collection was given as a gift by Sacvan Bercovitch during the date span 1993-1997.
Processing Information
Processed by Paula Jeannet and T. Walker Robinson
Completed August 26, 1997
Encoded by Lisa Stark
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Sacvan Bercovitch is a literary scholar and professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection contains research notes, manuscripts on paper and floppy diskettes, and some correspondence relating to the serial Cambridge History of American Literature, of which Bercovitch is general editor. Research notes chiefly relate to Bercovitch's work on colonial American literature and religion, particularly on the Puritans in New England. Also includes drafts with corrections of
"A Cultural Model of Literary Studies,"
and
"Literary Context,"
both by Bercovitch. Another set of files consists of writings by others, curriculum vitae, and more correspondence pertaining to the Cambridge serial. Some correspondence and articles date from the 1940s and 1950s and were written by Bryna Bercovitch in Yiddish; English translations included. Part of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for Literary Historiography.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Puritans--New England
- American literature--History and criticism
- Religion and literature--United States
- New England--Intellectual life
- Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence
- Bercovitch, Sacvan--Cultural model of literary studies
- Bercovitch, Sacvan--Literary context
Detailed Description of Collection
Box 1Correspondence (professional), 1969, Dec.-1986, Dec.
Correspondence (professional), 1987, Feb.-1991, Nov.
Correspondence (professional), 1992, Mar.-1994, June
Correspondence (professional), 1994, Aug.
Correspondence, 1997
Writings with some Correspondence (professional): "Deadpan Trickster"
Writings with some Correspondence (professional)
Correspondence (professional), 1995, Nov.-1998, Nov.
Correspondence (professional), 1999, Jan.-1999, Mar.
Correspondence (professional), 1999, Apr.-1999, May
Correspondence (professional), 1999, June-1999, July
Correspondence (personal and professional), 1984, Nov.-1999, Mar.
Correspondence (personal and professional), 1999, Apr.-1999, May
Miscellaneous
Bryna Bercovitch: Writings, 194-?
Bryna Bercovitch: Writings, 194-?-195-? -- including photocopies of original drafts (4 folders)
Drafts (SB): Fragments, various titles, 1995 and undated
"A Literary Approach to Cultural Studies"
"End-Game Gambit: A Model of Literary and Cultural Studies"
"A Cultural Model of Literary Studies"
Drafts: Fragments, undated
[
"End-Game Gambit"
?]
Box 4
Drafts (5 folders) :
"A Cultural Model of Literary Studies,"
1994 and undated
Nathan Weinstein: Biographical information
Culture in a Faulknerian Context
The Claims of Rhetoric: Miscellaneous publisher information and outline
Drafts: Fragments
"A Limitless Field: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature"
(keynote address for literary symposium, Texas Christian Univ.,
1994; version of "A Cultural Model of Literary Studies")
Drafts (7 folders) : Fragments, undated
"A Cultural Model of Literary Studies"
Handwritten Notes
Bryna Bercovitch: Drafts, 1946-1950 (photocopies of translations, 2 folders)
Bryna Bercovitch: "Rokhel" (essay, 1946)
Library of America Volume on Nathanael West (3 folders)
Drafts (Printed from diskettes 1-9, 10 folders), 1993-1994 and undated
"The Winthrop Variation,"
1994
"Games of Chess: A Model of Cultural Studies,"
1993 and other versions of same works, with various titles
Box 8
Drafts (Printed from diskettes 10-17, 7 folders), 1993-1994 and undated
Variants of
"The Winthrop Variation"
Student papers for literature classes
Spanish language exam sample
"Gifts of Faith in the Atonement of Christ"
- graduate student essay [SB?]
Diskettes 1-17 (3.5 floppies)
Bundle of notecards, chiefly citations from literary works by Melville, Douglass, Dewey
