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Mary Poovey papers (Ms.2017.001)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Writings and related, 1976-1997

Series 1. Subseries 1. Drafts, circa 1980-1995

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 "Beyond the Current Impasse in Literary Studies:" draft article
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2 "A Brief History of Modern Abstraction:" "Draft and Notes"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 3 "Can the Humanities Survive Distance Learning?:" draft article
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 4 "Creative Criticism: Adaptation, Performance Writing, and the Problem of Objectivity:" draft
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 5 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: chapter 1 draft and notes
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 6 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: chapter 5 notes
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 7 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech; contains notes and research materials, draft not included
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 8 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: "general overview"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 9 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech; includes introduction draft, notes, and newspaper clippings
 circa 1991
Box 1, Folder 10 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: "overview"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 11 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: "prospectus and chapter"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 12 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: proposal and contract
 1992
Box 1, Folder 13 Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: visual materials (slides, negatives, and photos)
 1994
Box 1, Folder 14 "History as Usual?: Feminism and the 'New Historicism:'" draft
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 15 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: chapter 2 annotated draft (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 16 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: chapter 2 annotated draft (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 17 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: "chapter 2: The Work of Statistics - some 19th century implementations
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 18 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: chapter 3 draft
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 19 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: "chapter 3 - Discourse of Statistics"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 20 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: chapter 3 draft (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 21 A History of Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society: chapter 3 draft (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 22 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: chapter 3 draft and notes (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 23 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: chapter 3 draft and notes (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 24 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: chapter 3 draft with notes and annotations from "Alison"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 25 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: chapter 5 draft
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 26 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: chapter 6 draft
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 27 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: cover image and negatives
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 28 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: "notes for chapters 1, 2, and 3"
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 29 Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830 - 1864: notes for chapter 2
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 30 The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, and Jane Austin: "chapter 4 - Wollstonecraft" draft
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 31 The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, and Jane Austin: research materials (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 32 The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, and Jane Austin: research materials (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 33 Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England: chapter 5 draft and notes
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 34 Unidentified title: "chapter 4 - political economy draft and notes for revision" (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 35 Unidentified title: "chapter 4 - political economy draft and notes for revision" (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 36 Unidentified title: "chapter 5 notes: primary and secondary" (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 37 Unidentified title: "chapter 5 notes: primary and secondary" (2 of 2)
 n.d.

Series 1. Subseries 3. Book reviews, 1984-1990

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 38 The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, and Jane Austin: reviews (1 of 2)
 1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 39 The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, and Jane Austin: reviews (1 of 2)
 1984-1985
Box 1, Folder 40 Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England: reviews
 1989-1990

Series 1. Subseries 2. Published works and related, 1976-1997

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 41 Reprints of published works by Poovey
 1976, 1979, 1980, 1993, 1997
Box 1, Folder 42 Royalty statement for various published works by Poovey
 33054

Series 2. Course materials, 1987-2000

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 43 "After Literary Studies:" draft lecture
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 44 "After Literary Studies:" draft lecture for visit to the University of Michigan; includes information from the University of Muchigan about the visit
 1999
Box 1, Folder 45 "The Age of Johnson;" contains syllabus, final exam, lecture notes, and reading material
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 46 "Domesticity and Class-Formation: Chadwick's 1842 'Sanitary Report':" lecture and notes
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 1 "Ellen Pickering:" lecture and correspondence re: keynote lecture
 1998
Box 2, Folder 2 "Gendering of Modern Knowledge;" contains lecture notes and annotated draft of "Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1664"
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 3 "History;" contains lecture, notes, and supporting material
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 4 "History of Modern Fact:" lecture, includes newspaper clipping
 circa 1998
Box 2, Folder 5 "Literary Study at the End of the Century: Have We Crossed the Boundaries of Our Discipline?": lecture
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 6 "Modernist Paradigms of History: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions And A History of the Modern Fact;" contains draft lecture and supporting materials
 circa 1998
Box 2, Folder 7 "The New York Institute for the Humanities and Interdisciplinarity at New York University:" lecture and schedule
 1999
Box 2, Folder 8 "Ninteenth and Twentieth Century Women Novelists:" lecture notes
 1987
Box 2, Folder 9 "Probability and Realism in the Novel;" includes syllabus and lecture notes
 1992
Box 2, Folder 10 "The Profession of Literary Studies: Disciplinary Foundations and Crisis;" includes syllabus, lectures, and correspondence re: guest lecture
 1999
Box 2, Folder 11 "Recovering Ellen Pickering:" lecture drafts and notes
 2000
Box 2, Folder 12 "Sex in America notes and drafts"
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 13 "Twenty Years of Feminist Criticism in the US:" lecture
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 14 "Victorian England: History, Theory, Literature;" includes syllabus and lecture notes
 1993
Box 2, Folder 15 "Victorian England: History, Theory, Literature;" includes syllabi, lecture notes, and supporting material
 1993
Box 2, Folder 16 "The Woman Question in Victorian Literature;" includes syllabus, lecture notes, and supporting material
 1990

Series 3. Conference materials

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 1 Future of the City of Intellect Conference at the University of California, Riverside; includes conference pamphlet, correspondence, agenda, notes, and lecture drafts
 February 17-19, 2000

Series 4. Research materials, 1981-1987

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 2 Book review by Catherine Hall re: The Making of the Modern Body by Catherine Gallagher
 circa 1987
Box 3, Folder 3 Print material: Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics [special issue on sex]
 1981
Box 3, Folder 4 Research article: "Female Rights Vindicated"
 n.d.

Series 5. Electronic records

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 5 Electronic records: general drive
 n.d.

Series 6. Restricted materials, 1982-1998

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 1 Correspondence
 1997-1998
Box 4, Folders 2-4 "Hypnosis drawings"
 1994-1995
Box 4, Folder 5 "Medical reports and related material;" includes correspondence
 1990-1991
Box 4, Folders 6-12 "Therapy diaries"
 1982-1998