Register of the Theodore W. Bogacz writings
Finding aid prepared by Emilia Schrier
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Theodore W. Bogacz writings
Date (inclusive): 1976-1984
Collection Number: 96050
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The Theodore W. Bogacz papers consist of writings and correspondence relating to the American academic Theodore Bogacz. The
writings center on British cultural responses to World War I and include his doctoral dissertation "Sassoon and Company: Siegfrid
Sassoon's Journey to Modernity in the Great War" (University of California, Berkeley, 1982).
Creator:
Bogacz, Theodore W.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1996.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Theodore W. Bogacz writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
American historian.
| 1943 |
Born |
| 1980 |
Appointed to faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland |
| 1982 |
Awarded doctorate by the University of California at Berkeley |
| 1986-1987 |
Taught as exchange professor at the British Royal Military College at Sandhurst, England |
| 1992 |
Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
The Theodore W. Bogacz papers consist of writings and correspondence relating to the American academic Theodore Bogacz. The
writings center on British cultural responses to World War I and include his doctoral dissertation "Sassoon and Company: Siegfrid
Sassoon's Journey to Modernity in the Great War" (University of California, Berkeley, 1982). The papers also include shorter
essays published between the years of 1976 and 1989. Among these are a study of what Bogacz calls "war neurosis" in England
during World War I as well as an assessment of English painters during the period 1914-1932.
Arrangement Statement
Collection is organized into 2 series: Correspondence; and Writings
Subjects and Indexing Terms
British literature
Art -- Great Britain
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war
World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
box 1, folder 2
"Escape from Mortmere: The Left-Wing Writers of the 1930s and the Public School System" and commentary by Louis R. Biscaglia
1976
"Sassoon and Company: Siegfrid Sassoon's Journey to Modernity in the Great War"
1982
box 1, folder 8
"Language, Poetry and Anti-Modernism in the First World War: The English Case"
1983
box 1, folder 9
"War Neurosis and Cultural Change in England: The Work of the War Office Committee of Enquiry Into 'Shell-Shock'"
1984
box 1, folder 10
"English Painters at War: Traditionalists, Visionaries, and the Avant-Garde, 1914-1932"
1989
