MenuRegister of the M. Thomas Inge Papers, 1978-1982, 1988-1989
Collection Overview
The M. Thomas Inge Papers (1978-1982, 1988-1989) consist of the corrected manuscripts of five works of which Inge was the editor: Handbook of American Popular Culture (HAPC; 3 vols., 1978-1981), Bartleby the Inscrutable (1979), Concise Histories of American Popular Culture (1981), Handbook of American Popular Literature (1988), and the second edition of HAPC (3 vols., 1989). The Inge papers demonstrate not only the development of M. Thomas Inge's scholarly and editorial acumen, but also the growth of the study of American popular literature and culture.
For Bartleby the Inscrutable, M. Thomas Inge was able to recruit contributions from several important scholars and critics of American literature, including Lewis Leary, Lewis Mumford, Egbert S. Oliver, Alfred Kazin, Richard Chase, Leo Marx, and Hershel Parker.
A member of the American Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Popular Culture Association, M. Thomas Inge edited collections of essays on Faulkner's Light in August, frontier humorists, and Ellen Glasgow before becoming the general editor of Greenwood Press's Research Guides in Popular Culture series in 1977. Inge solicited essays from a number of American cultural studies specialists for the original 1978-1981 HAPC, a project that subsequently led not only to two spinoff projects--the 1981 Concise Histories volume and the 1988 Handbook of American Popular Literature--but also to the 1989 second edition of HAPC. Selected essays in the first edition of HAPC were revised (and abridged) for the Concise Histories volume and further revised either for the Handbook of Popular Literature or for the second edition of HAPC. Thus, by looking in particular at these four items in the Book Manuscripts Series and observing the various additions and deletions, it is possible to trace how several critics--among them James J. Best, Richard Etulain, Katherine Fishburn, Donald A. McQuade, Richard N. Masteller, Nancy Pogel, Janice Radway, Anne E. Rowe, Richard Guy Wilson, and Inge himself--evolved in their views of their areas of specialty.
Collections in the Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library related to the M. Thomas Inge papers include the Lewis Gaston Leary papers, the Lewis Mumford papers, and the Egbert S. Oliver papers.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- M. Thomas Inge Papers, 1978-1982, 1988-1989
- Creator
- Inge, M. Thomas
- Extent
- Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 4.6, Number of items: 5
- Repository
- Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Language
- English.
Administrative Information
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Access Restrictions
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Use Restrictions
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Contents of the Collection
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Historical Note
| Date | Event(s) |
|---|---|
| 1936, March 18 | Born, Newport News, Va. |
| 1959 | B.A., Randolph-Macon College |
| 1960 | M.A., Vanderbilt University |
| 1962-1964 | Instructor of English, Vanderbilt University |
| 1964 | Ph.D., Vanderbilt University |
| 1964-1969 | Assistant Professor/Associate Professor of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University |
| 1967-1968 | Fulbright lecturer, University of Salamanca, Spain |
| 1969-1980 | Associate Professor/Professor/Department Chair of English, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 1970-1979 | General Editor, American Critical Tradition series (David Lewis) and Founding Editor, Resources for American Literary Studies |
| 1971 | Fulbright lecturer, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 1973-1976 | General Editor, Research Guides in English (St. Martin's) |
| 1974-1980 | Founding Editor, American Humor |
| 1977- | General Editor, Research Guides in Popular Culture (Greenwood) |
| 1978 | Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, Volume 1 (Greenwood); President, American Humor Studies Association |
| 1979 | Editor, Bartleby the Inscrutable (Archon); Fulbright lecturer, Moscow State University, U. S. S. R. |
| 1980 | Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, Volume 2 (Greenwood) |
| 1980- | Professor/Department Head of English, Clemson University |
| 1981 | Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, Volume 3 and Concise Histories of American Popular Culture (Greenwood) |
| 1988 | Editor, Handbook of American Popular Literature (Greenwood) |
| 1989 | Editor, Handbook of American Popular Culture, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, 3 vols. |
Subject Headings
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], M. Thomas Inge Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The M. Thomas Inge papers (1978-1989) were donated to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library from 1980-1982 and in 1991 by M. Thomas Inge.
Processing Information
Processed by Stanley Blair
Date Completed: 6/24/92
Encoded by Alvin Pollock
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