Wallace Fowlie papers, 1911-1998 and undated

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Creator:
Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-1998
Abstract:
Writer, critic, translator, and faculty member at Duke University specializing in modern French literature. The Wallace Fowlie Papers span the years 1911 to 1998 and consist mainly of correspondence sent to Fowlie, but also texts from Fowlie's personal library, publications on French literature authored by Fowlie, typescript and handwritten drafts by Fowlie, amd clippings pertaining to Fowlie's career. A significant portion of the correspondence comprises exchanges between Fowlie and Thomas and Kit Foster. These letters mainly address personal and family matters (health issues, vacations and meeting with mutual friends), but also cover projects Fowlie was working on, teaching positions accepted and rejected and class progress, and other matters of professional relevance. There is also a folder of correspondence with Fowlie, almost entirely in French, that was maintained by John M. Dunaway, a Romance Languages professor at Mercer College in Georgia. It includes a few color photographs. Other smaller amounts of correspondence come from Robert Heslen, a former student of Fowlie, and well-known writers/artists including René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Alexis Léger (Saint-Jean Perse), Marianne Moore, Anaïs Nin, and others, discussing literary matters and their writings and careers. There are letters from Fowlie to Walter Muther. A folder of general correspondence contains single letters from a variety of colleagues and friends. Selections from Fowlie's library are sorted into works and translations by Fowlie, and works he used privately or for his own research.
Extent:
5 Linear Feet
516 Items
Language:
Material in English and French
Collection ID:
RL.00411

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Scope and content:

The Wallace Fowlie Papers span the years 1911 to 1998 and consist mainly of correspondence sent to Fowlie, but also texts from Fowlie's personal library, publications on French literature authored by Fowlie, typescript and handwritten drafts by Fowlie, amd clippings pertaining to Fowlie's career. A significant portion of the correspondence comprises exchanges between Fowlie and Thomas and Kit Foster. These letters mainly address personal and family matters (health issues, vacations and meeting with mutual friends), but also cover projects Fowlie was working on, teaching positions accepted and rejected and class progress, and other matters of professional relevance. There is also a folder of correspondence with Fowlie, almost entirely in French, that was maintained by John M. Dunaway, a Romance Languages professor at Mercer College in Georgia. It includes a few color photographs. Other smaller amounts of correspondence come from Robert Heslen, a former student of Fowlie, and well-known writers/artists including René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Alexis Léger (Saint-Jean Perse), Marianne Moore, Anaïs Nin, and others, discussing literary matters and their writings and careers. There are letters from Fowlie to Walter Muther. A folder of general correspondence contains single letters from a variety of colleagues and friends. Selections from Fowlie's library are sorted into works and translations by Fowlie, and works he used privately or for his own research.

Biographical / historical:
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Date Event
1908, Nov. 8
Wallace Fowlie born in Brookline, Massachussetts
1936
Received Doctorate from Harvard University
1943
Publication of Clowns and Angels: Studies in French Literature
1946
Rimbaud, the Myth of Childhood published
1951
Pantomime: A Journal of Rehearsals published
1953
Publication of Rimbaud's Illuminations
1964
Fowlie appointed to faculty at Duke University
1965
Publication of André Gide: His Life and Art
1966
Publication of Rimbaud (Complete Works) and Jean Cocteau: The History of a Poet's Age
1977
Duke Press published A Journal of Rehearsals, a revision and updating of the earlier 1951 autobiography, Pantomime: A Journal of Rehearsals
1983
Aubade: A Teacher's Notebook published
1984-1985
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at nine universities and colleges
1987
Sites: A Third Memoir published
1990
Memory: A Fourth Memoir published
1990
Worked as consultant on Oliver Stone's film The Doors
1994
Publication of Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet
1998, August 16
Died in Durham, North Carolina
Acquisition information:

The Wallace Fowlie Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift from 1981-2007, 2011, 2015 and 2018.

Includes Accessions: 2015-0128, 2015-0132, 2018-0095

Processing information:

Processed by Aaron Thornburg, September 2008

Encoded by Aaron Thornburg, September 2008

Accessions from 1981 and 1982, and accessions 1999-0477, 2007-0045, 2011-0160 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.

Updated to include 2011-0160 by Alice Poffinberger, March 2014.

Updated to include 2015-0128 and 2015-0132 by Meghan Lyon and Sandra Niethardt, October 2015.

Updated to include 2018-0095 by Alice Poffinberger, October 2018

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