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Carnochan (W. B.) Papers
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  • Language of Material: Undetermined
    Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Title: W. B. Carnochan papers
    Identifier/Call Number: SC0614
    Physical Description: 64.75 Linear Feet (28 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1928-2013
    Date (bulk): 1960-2013
    Abstract: Papers documenting Carnochan's career as researcher and writer. Included are source materials, drafts, and published versions of his scholarly articles and books, with related correspondence; published book reviews; texts of papers and talks with related correspondence and ephemera; and materials pertaining to his support of the Stanford University Libraries and his directorship of the Stanford Humanities Center.
    Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.

    Access

    Materials in Accession ARCH-2010-102, Box 2 are closed until January 1, 2021. Otherwise the collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.

    Acquisition Information

    Gift of W. B. Carnochan, 1999-2013.

    Biography

    Educated at Harvard University (A.B. 1953, A.M. 1957, and Ph.D. 1960), W. B. Carnochan joined the English faculty at Stanford University in 1960. He chaired the English department from 1971-73 and has served the University as dean of graduate studies and vice-provost, 1975-80, and director of the Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-1991.
    A scholar of the eighteenth century, his published books include Gibbon's Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian (1987), Confinement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (1977), and Lemuel Gulliver's Mirror For Man (1968). Other works include The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience (1993) and Momentary Bliss: an American Memoir (1999).

    Preferred Citation

    W. B. Carnochan Papers (SC0614). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    These papers primarily document Carnochan's professional career as researcher and writer. Included are source materials, drafts, and published versions of his scholarly articles and books, with related correspondence; published book reviews, 1960s-1990s; texts of papers and talks with related correspondence and ephemera, 1977-1997; and materials pertaining to his support of the Stanford University Libraries and his directorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, including a VHS tape of his retirement roast. Correspondents include Richard Ohmann, Catharine Stimpson, Linda Hutcheon, Charles Pierce, Peter Brooks, David M. Vieth, Emerson Brown, Jr., W. J. Bate, Patricia Spacks, Newell Ford, and William Frost. Other papers include his grade reports and papers from Buckley School, St. Paul's School, and Harvard University; listing and appraisal of the Carnochan family papers; and the "American Vernacular" exhibit brochure for the Carnochan Collections at UC Berkeley's University Art Museum. The addition to his papers received in 2006 includes correspondence with Douglas Dennis, an inmate at Angola Prison, 1996-2006; copies of The Angolite, The Prison News Magazine , 1994-2005; and Brigitte Carnochan's portfolio of photographs taken at the Angola Prison Rodeo in 2001. The addition to his papers received in 2009 includes correspondence with Douglas Dennis, 2006-2009, and issues of The Angolite, 2006-2009.

    Publication Rights

    Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Prisoners -- Recreation -- Louisiana.
    English literature -- 18th century -- Study and teaching.
    Louisiana State Penitentiary.
    Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer.
    Pierce, Charles E.
    Ohmann, Richard M. (Richard Malin)
    Hutcheon, Linda
    Carnochan, Brigitte Hoy
    Vieth, David M.
    Stimpson, Catharine R.
    Brown, Emerson
    Brooks, Peter
    Bate, Walter Jackson
    Frost, William
    Ford, Newell F.
    Dennis, Douglas