{"id":4879,"date":"2021-10-27T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/?page_id=4879"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:32:12","slug":"brag-bag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/get-involved\/brag-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Brag Bag: Works Inspired by RBML’s Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never a Lovely So Real : the life and work of Nelson Algren<\/em><\/a>. (W.W. Norton & Company, 2019)<\/h2>\n

Author: Colin Asher<\/h2>\n

Algren was friends with Carl Sandburg and Edwin Rolfe. Asher’s biography cites letters from Algren held in our Sandburg and Rolfe archives.<\/p>\n

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The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World<\/em>. (Viking\/Penguin, Nov. 2021)<\/h2>\n

Author: Claire Tomalin<\/h2>\n

The noted biographer Claire Tomalin\u2019s just published work on H. G. Wells has received numerous positive reviews. Drawing on sources held in RBML\u2019s vast archive of Wells materials, it prints several photographs from our collections and excerpts the correspondence between Wells and his lover Amber Reeves. A selection from Tomalin\u2019s book detailing Wells\u2019s successful escape from a draper\u2019s existence is available here on Literary Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Sherborne, author of H. G. Wells : Another Kind of Life<\/em> (2010) and a sponsored Velde Visiting Scholar<\/a> to RBML in 2006, has just written favorably of Tomalin\u2019s work in the November 5th Times Literary Supplement<\/em>. The TLS\u2019s fascinating podcast exchange with Sherborne on Tomalin\u2019s achievement (as well as reaction to J. S. Barne\u2019s The City of Dr. Moreau<\/em>, a contemporary sequel(!) to Wells\u2019s Island of Doctor Moreau<\/em>) is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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H.G. Wells and the Empire: The Artist and the Intellectual.<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

Author: Tiziano De Marino. Doctoral dissertation (Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma,) defended July 2021.<\/h2>\n

Dr. De Marino conducted research for his doctoral work as a Visiting Scholar and IFUSS Research Fellow<\/a> in the H.G. Wells papers in 2019. This research has also inspired an essay in the July 2021 issue of Science Fiction Studies<\/em> (DePauw University) “The Ethics of Empire: H. G. Wells Re-Writing R. L. Stevenson”<\/a> (Vol. 48, No. 2, July 2021, pp. 243-262.)<\/p>\n

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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn<\/em>. Volume 4. The Plays. 1682\u20131696.<\/em><\/a>
\nEdited by Rachel Adcock, Kate Aughterson, Claire Bowditch, Elaine Hobby, Alan James Hogarth, Anita Pacheco and Margarete Rubik.
\nDate: March 2021<\/h2>\n

Two of the editors, Dr. Claire Bowditch and Dr. Elaine Hobby, our 2015 John \u201cBud\u201d Velde Visiting Scholars, spent weeks in the RBML reading room collating the text of several plays by Aphra Behn from first editions of Behn\u2019s plays held in our collections. Seven more volumes are planned: plays, poetry, fiction…<\/p>\n

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The Four Curves of Alexis Clairaut<\/em><\/a>
\nAuthors: Taner Kiral (Wabash College), Jonathan Murdock (Wabash College), and Colin B. P. McKinney (Wabash College)
\nDate: November 2020<\/h2>\n

Faculty-student collaboration on translation\/edition of a French 18th<\/sup> c. mathematical text (Wabash College, Indiana.)<\/p>\n

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Proust and the Great War, Part 2<\/a>
\nDate: 2014<\/h2>\n

Online exhibition based on work by students of French 578 seminar and Prof. Fran\u00e7ois Proulx.<\/p>\n

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Proust and the Great War<\/a>
\nDate: May 10, 2014<\/h2>\n

Online exhibition based on work by students of French 574 seminar and Prof. Fran\u00e7ois Proulx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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