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Acquisition Information
Biography
Preferred Citation
Scope and Content of Collection
Publication Rights
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: W. B. Carnochan papers
Creator:
Carnochan, W. B.
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.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
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