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Interpretive Acts: Theory and Practice in the Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts Pictures as Primary Sources for American History Louise George Clubb, Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley Dobranski, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at the Georgia State University Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of PennsylvaniaĪlbert Derolez, Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles President of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine Michael Winship, Iris Howard Regents Professor II of English at the University of Texas at AustinĪlbert Derolez, Curator Emeritus of Special Collections in the Universiteitsbibiotheek Gent Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles The Industrial Book in America, 1830-1914 Thomas Tanselle, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Professor of Bibliographic Studies at Columbia University. Late Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing Martha Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College Stefano Zamponi, Professor of Latin Palaeography, Director of the “Dipartimento di Studi sul Medioevo e il Rinascimento,” and Director of the School of Doctoral Studies in Philology and Textual Transmission at the University of Florence Maija Jansson, Director of the Yale Center for Parlimentary HistoryĮnglish Paleography and Archival Sources (16th-18th Century) Thomas Tanselle, retired from the vice presidency of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationĮnglish Paleography and Archival Sources, 16th-18th Century Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermontīibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing Johan Kugelberg, author and curator based in New YorkĪpproaches to Biography in the James Weldon Johnson CollectionĮmily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA U. It is called the Voynich manuscript, and its one of historys biggest unsolved mysteries. Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream. Working with Alternative Media: Documenting Counter-Culture Deep inside Yales Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library lies a 240 page tome. Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and George Miles, Curator, Yale Collection of Western Americana Working from the Archive: Pictures as Primary Sources This is an ongoing digitization project new images will be added as they become available.Richard Benson, Professor,Yale School of Art Over 9,000 black and white photographic prints ![]() History of the CollectionĬarl Van Vechten donated a significant portion of his literary archive, many books from his personal library, a complete set of his photographic negatives and many thousands of prints, paintings and works of art, and other documents and objects from his personal collections to the Yale Collection of American Literature over several decades he is the founder of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters. Van Vechten’s most compelling photographs document the photographer’s artistic sensibility while demonstrating his significant talent for portraiture. The Beinecke Library's robust collections are used to create new scholarship by researchers from around the world. Van Vechten’s portraits have become more than just well-loved images Van Vechten has helped to define the ways his subjects will be remembered, the way they will enter history and the popular imagination. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is one of the world's largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts and is Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. ![]() His diverse subjects give a sense of both Carl Van Vechten’s interests and his considerable role in defining the cultural landscape of the twentieth century among his many sitters one finds the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, the premier actors and writers of the American stage, the world’s greatest opera stars and ballerinas, the most important and influential writers of the day, among many others. As a promoter of literary talent and a critic of dance, theater, and opera, Carl Van Vechten was as interested in the cultural margin as he was in the day’s most acclaimed and successful people. Beginning in 1932, in the studio in his New York City apartment, Van Vechten photographed many of the most famous and influential figures of his day as well as up-and-comers and artistic outliers. In the artistic and intellectual communities of his day, Van Vechten truly covered the waterfront. During his career as a photographer, Carl Van Vechten’s subjects, many of whom were his friends and social acquaintances, included dancers, actors, writers, artists, activists, singers, costumiers, photographers, social critics, educators, journalists, and aesthetes. ![]()
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