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Collection Number: 04537

Collection Title: C. Hugh Holman Papers (#4537) 1930s-1980s

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Size 26 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 26,000 items)
Abstract C. Hugh Holman (1914-1981), literary scholar specializing in Southern literature, member of the faculty of the English Department of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1949 until retirement in the 1970s, and administrator at the University of North Carolina in various capacities, 1963-1978. The collection includes articles, reviews, speeches, chiefly by Holman, concerning various aspects of Southern literature, including the work of Thomas Wolfe, William Gilmore Simms, and Ellen Glasgow; novels, radio plays, and other works by Holman; teaching and administrative files concerning Holman's work at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the National Humanities Center, the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Incorporated, and other organizations; correspondence files concerning Holman's literary and administrative activities; and recordings and photographs.
Creator Holman, C. Hugh (Clarence Hugh), 1914-1981.
Curatorial Unit Southern Historical Collection
Language English.
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Clarence Hugh Holman, son of David Marion and Jessie Pearl Davis Holman, was born in Cross Anchor, S.C., on 24 February 1914. he received his early schooling in Gaffney and Clinton, S.C., before entering Presbyterian College, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1936. From 1936 to 1939 he was director of public relations for the college, and from 1939 to 1941 director of its radio programs, receiving meanwhile an A.B. degree in English cum laude in 1939. In 1939, he studied radio programming at New York University. From 1939 to 1942 he was on the faculty of Presbyterian College, and in 1945 became its academic dean serving as state publicity director for the Council for National Defense (1942-1944) and as academic coordinator and instructor in physics for the U.S. Army Air Force (1943-1945). As an avocation during these busy years, he published a series of popular mystery novels: Death like Thunder (1942), Trout in the Milk (1946), Up This Crooked Way (1946), Another Man's Poison (1947), and, as "Clarence Hunt," Small Town Corpse (1951).

But Holman was at heart an educator. In 1946, he entered the University of North Carolina as a graduate student and instructor in English, receiving his doctorate in 1949 with a dissertation on "William Gilmore Simms's Theory and Practice of Historical Fiction"; the same year he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. From this time, his rise in the university was rapid. Within a decade he was appointed assistant professor (1949), associate professor (1951), professor (1956), and Kenan Professor (1959). In 1954 he served as an assistant dean and from 1955 to 1957 as acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. From 1957 to 1962 he was chairman of the Department of English, also serving as a member (1957-1973) and chairman (1961-1973) of the Board of Governors of the University Press as a chairman (1959-1962) of the Division of Humanities. From 1963 to 1966 he was dean of the graduate school, from 1966 to 1968 provost, and from 1972 to 1978 a special assistant to the chancellor, organizing and compiling a self-study survey of the university at Chapel Hill.

Holman was the recipient of a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1967), the Thomas Jefferson Award (1975), an award for excellence in writing from Winthrop College (1976), and the Oliver Max Gardner Award (1977). He was awarded a Litt.D. by Presbyterian College in 1963, and a L.H.D. for "dedicated classroom teaching" by Clemson University in 1968. In 1975 he became a member of the board of trustees of the Triangle University Center for Advanced Study, and in 1976 was named chairman of its executive committee. In the latter year he also became a member of the board of trustees, a member of the executive committee, and vice-president of the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park, and in 1980 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holman was a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church in Clinton and an elder of the Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church in Durham.

Known beyond his university for capacities as an administrator, Holman was chairman of the American Literature Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (1953-1954); chairman of the bibliographical committee (1957-1961), member of the executive committee (1964-1965), program chairman (1966, 1979), and chairman (1970) of the American Literature Section, and a member of the executive committee of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group (1978-1981) of the Modern Language Association of America; president of the Southeastern American Studies Association (1958-1959); consultant in English to the U.S. Air Force Academy (1962); and president of the Virginia-North Carolina College English Association (1962-1963). In 1957-1960, he was on the editorial board of College English; in 1967, an advisory editor of the Encyclopedia Americana; in 1968, a founding editor (with Louis D. Rubin, Jr.) of the Southern Literary Journal; and, from 1970, a member of the editorial boards of Essays on Literature and Resources for American Literary Study, and an adviser on American literature for the Encyclopedia of World Literature.

As an inquiring scholar, Holman had as his major interest prose fiction, particularly fiction of the South, a subject which he earned as international reputation for authoritative critical judgments. The author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-six books and some seventy professional articles, he is perhaps most remembered for A Handbook to Literature with W. F. Thrall and Addison Hibbard; Thomas Wolfe (1960), which has been translated into six languages; The Thomas Wolfe Reader (1962); Three Modes of Southern Fiction (1966); The Letters of Thomas Wolfe with Sue Fields Ross (1968); Southern Fiction: Renaissance and Beyond with Louis D. Rubin, Jr., and Walter Sullivan (1969); Southern Writing, 1585-1920, with Richard Beale Davis and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1970); Thomas Wolfe and the Glass of Time, with Richard S. Kennedy and Richard Walser (1971); The Roots of Southern Writing (1972); The Loneliness at the Core; Studies in Thomas Wolfe (1975), winner of the Mayflower Society Award; Southern Literary Study: Promise and Possibilities with Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1975); The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History (1977); and Windows on the World: Essays on American Social Fiction (1979).

On 1 September 1938, Holman married Verna Virginia McCleod of Ocala, Fla., and their children were Margaret McCleod Stroud (b. 1949) and David Marion (b. 1951). Holman was buried in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.

[Taken from Lewis Leary's biography of Holman in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (1988), volume 3, p. 176-177

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The collection includes articles, reviews, speeches, chiefly by C. Hugh Holman, concerning various aspects of Southern literature, including the work of Thomas Wolfe, William Gilmore Simms, and Ellen Glasgow; novels, radio plays, and other works by Holman; teaching and administrative files concerning Holman's work at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the National Humanities Center, the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Incorporated, and other organizations; correspondence files concerning Holman's literary and administrative activities; and recordings and photographs.

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About 1200 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical, chiefly, but not exclusively, by name of work.

Articles, reviews, novels, plans for anthologies, speeches, radio plays, poems, and other types of literature and literary criticism written or edited by Holman. In many cases, the text of each work, sometimes in several drafts, is included. Besides texts, related materials--correspondence, notes, book jackets, reviews of these works--may also be found.

For the most part, works have been arranged in an alphabetical run by the title of the work. Exceptions include Holman's detective novels and radio plays which, because they are distinct from Holman's main opus, have been grouped together. The radio plays have not been listed individually. In addition, works and related materials about three authors--Ellen Glasgow, William Gilmore Simms, and Thomas Wolfe--about whom Holman wrote extensively have been grouped under each author's name. There are also a few files containing general information on publishers or mystery stories, etc., that have been included in this series.

With some exceptions, folder titles are those assigned by Holman.

Folder 1

"Absalom, Absalom! The Historian as Detective"

Folder 2

"The Achievement of William Faulkner by Michael Millgate" (review)

Folder 3

"Advanced Composition in the Graduate School"

Folder 4

"The Adventurous Muse" (review)

Folder 5

"Agrarianism as a Theme in Southern Literature: The Utility of Myth"

Folder 6

"Aline by Carole Klein" (review)

Folder 7

American Association of University Professors speech (1963)

Folder 8

"The American Historical Novel by Ernest Leisy" (review)

Folder 9

"American Literature: The State of the Art, the Tradition The American Novel Through Henry James, "(1979)

Folder 10-12

Folder 10

Folder 11

Folder 12

The American Novel Through Henry James (1979): Correspondence and other Items, 1966-1978

Folder 13-14

Folder 13

Folder 14

The American Novel Through Henry James (1979): Corrected page proofs

Folder 15

"The American Scholar's Complex Fate" (1966)

Folder 16

"Antebellum Southern Literary Criticism"

Folder 17

"Antebellum Southern Literary Critics by Edd Parks" (review)

Folder 18

"Anodyne for the Village Virus"

Folder 19

"Another Look at Nineteenth-Century Fiction"

Folder 20

"The Art of Southern Fiction: A Study of Some Modern Novelists" (review)

Folder 21

"Authors, Publishers, and Politicians" (review)

Folder 22

"The Balanced Graduate Program"

Folder 23

"Barren Ground and the Shape of History"

Folder 24

"Benito Cereno"

Folder 25

"Best Sentence and Most Solaas: The Delight of Reading"

Folder 26

"The Bildungsroman, American Style"

Folder 27

"Books Speaking To Books by William Stafford" (review)

Folder 28

"The Burden of Southern History by C. Vann Woodward" (review)

Folder 29

"Carl Sandburg"

Folder 30

Chapel Hill Carousel (Holman, editor)

Folder 31

"Cheap Books and the Pubic Interest: Paperbound Book Publishing in Two Centuries"

Folder 32-33

Folder 32

Folder 33

The Collegian (Presbyterian College of South Carolina) (1928-1940)

Folder 34-48

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

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Folder 38

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Folder 45

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Folder 47

Folder 48

The Complete Writings of Washington Irving 15 folders of materials, 1965-1971, relating to Holman's editorial work on these volumes

Folder 49

"Contemporary Issues in the Humanities"

Folder 50

Council of Graduate Schools Panel (1964)

Folder 51

"Courtly Love in the Merchant's and the Franklin's Tales"

Folder 52

"Crafts, William"

Folder 53

"The Crisis of Our Culture"

Folder 54

Cumberland County (North Carolina) Technology and Human Values speech (1979)

Folder 55

"A Cycle of Change in Southern Literature"

Folder 56

"The Defense of Art: An Historical Sketch"

Folder 57

"The Defense of Art: Criticism Since 1930"

Folder 58

"Departments of Pathology and Graduate School"

Folder 59

"The Desperate Soldier-Scholars: Graduate Study in English, 1946-1956"

Folder 60

"Detached Humor of the South"

Folder 61

"Detective Fiction as American Realism"

Detective novels: Related materials may include correspondence, book jackets, reviews, and other Items.

62: Another Man's Poison (1947): Draft and notes #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 62
63-64: Another Man's Poison (1947): Typescript of "final copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 63-64
65: Another Man's Poison (1947): Related materials #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 65
66-67: Death Like Thunder (1942): Draft #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 66-67
68-69: Death Like Thunder (1942): Typescript of final copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 68-69
70: Death Like Thunder (1942): Related materials #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 70
71-72: Portrait of Evil (undated): Typescript #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 71-72
73: Portrait of Evil (undated): Related materials #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 73
74-75: Slay the Murderer (1946): Draft and notes #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 74-75
76: Slay the Murderer (1946): Typescript of final copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 76
77-78: Slay the Murderer (1946): Printer's copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 77-78
79: Slay the Murderer (1946): Related materials #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 79
80-81: Trout in the Milk (1945): Draft #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 80-81
82-83: Trout in the Milk (1945): Notes #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 82-83
84-85: Trout in the Milk (1945): Printer's copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 84-85
86: Trout in the Milk (1945): Related materials #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 86
87-88: Up This Crooked Way (1951): Draft and notes #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 87-88
89-90: Up This Crooked Way (1951): Typescript of final copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 89-90
91-92: Up This Crooked Way (1951): Printer's copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 91-92
93: Up This Crooked Way (1951): Galleys #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 93
94: Up This Crooked Way (1951): Bound final copy #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 94
95: Up This Crooked Way (1951): Related materials #04537, Series 1. Works of Holman and Related Materials, 1930s-1980s., Folder 95
Folder 96

"The Dispossessed Garden by Lewis P. Simpson" (review)

Folder 97

Distinguished Scholar Seminar (1979)

Folder 94-101

Folder 94

Folder 95

Folder 96

Folder 97

Folder 98

Folder 99

Folder 100

Folder 101

Encyclopedia Americana

Folder 102

Encyclopedia of Southern History

Folder 103

"Essay"

Folder 104

"Ernest Hemingway: A Tribute"

Folder 105

"European Influences on Southern American Literature: A Preliminary Survey"

Folder 106

Faulkner Obituary

Folder 107

"Faulkner's Non-Realistic Avatars"

Folder 108-109

Folder 108

Folder 109

"Fiction, 1900-1930"

Folder 110

"Fifteen American Authors Before 1900: Research and Criticism, Bibliographic Essays"

Folder 111-112

Folder 111

Folder 112

Fifteen Modern American Authors

Folder 113

"Fitzgerald's Changes on the Southern Belle: The Tarleton Trilogy"

Folder 114

"Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Literary Tradition"

Folder 115

Franklin, John Hope (introduction)

Folder 116

"Fugitive's Reunion: Conversation at Vanderbilt edited by R.R. Purdy" (review)

Folder 117

"The Future of American Literature in Southern Colleges and Universities"

Folder 118

The Garretson Chronicle, by Gerald Warner Brace (Holman, editor)

Folder 119

Georgia Independent Schools speech, 1969

Folder 120-121

Folder 120

Folder 121

"A Gift And Not An Acquisition"

Folder 122

Glasgow, Ellen: Notes on Ellen Glasgow

Folder 123

Glasgow, Ellen: "April in Queensborough: Ellen Glasgow's Comedies of Manners"

Folder 124

Glasgow, Ellen: "Ellen Glasgow" (for Dictionary of American Biography)

Folder 125

Glasgow, Ellen: "Ellen Glasgow: A Bibliography by William Kelly" (review)

Folder 126

Glasgow, Ellen: "Ellen Glasgow and History"

Folder 127

Glasgow, Ellen: "Ellen Glasgow and the Southern Literary Tradition"

Folder 128

Glasgow, Ellen: "Ellen Glasgow and the Woman Within by E. Stanly Godbold, Jr." (review)

Folder 129

Glasgow, Ellen: "Tragedy of Self-Entrapment: Ellen Glasgow's The Romance of a Plain Man" (1978)

Folder 130

"Go Slow Now: Faulkner and the Race Question by Charles D. Peavy"

Folder 131

"Graduate Study at Chapel Hill"

Folder 132

Grolier Encyclopedia

Folder 133

Folder number not used

Folder 134

Hardison, O.B. (introduction)

Folder 135-143

Folder 135

Folder 136

Folder 137

Folder 138

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Folder 140

Folder 141

Folder 142

Folder 143

Handbook to Literature: Correspondence, 1969-1979

Folder 144-146

Folder 144

Folder 145

Folder 146

Handbook to Literature: Outline

Folder 147-162

Folder 147

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Folder 162

Handbook to Literature: Printer's Copy

Folder 163

"Hemingway and Emerson: Notes on the Continuity of an Aesthetic Tradition"

Folder 164

"Hemingway and Vanity Fair"

Folder 165

"Henry Adams On the Road to Chartres by Robert Mane" (review)

Folder 166

"Hoist On His Own (Kind of) Petard"

Folder 167

"How Can Literature Enrich Life?"

Folder 168

"Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography" (review)

Folder 169

"The Humanities at Chapel Hill"

Folder 170

"Hurricane by Robert Morris" (review)

Folder 171

"The Idea of America"

Folder 172

"The Idea of the American South by Michael O'Brien" (review)

Folder 173

"The Images of Man in Contemporary Literature"

Folder 174

"Images of the Negro in American Literature" (review)

Folder 175-177

Folder 175

Folder 176

Folder 177

The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History (1976): Correspondence and other Items, 1976-1977

Folder 178

The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History (1976): Typescript

Folder 179

The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History (1976): Printer's copy

Folder 180

In His Steps and Ten Nights in a Bar-room (Holman,editor)

Folder 181

"An Indecipherable Cause"

Folder 182

"Intellectual Life in the Colonial South byRichard Beale Davis" (review)

Folder 183

Introduction to Literature

Folder 184

"Is There a Southern Literature?"

Folder 185-187

Folder 185

Folder 186

Folder 187

"John P. Marquand"

Folder 188

"John White Drawings"

Folder 189-191

Folder 189

Folder 190

Folder 191

Land of Oxymoron: Essays on Southern Writers: Photocopy of typescript with corrections, c. 1

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Folder 192

Folder 193

Folder 194

Land of Oxymoron: Essays on Southern Writers: Photocopy of typescript with corrections, c. 2

Folder 195

"Language and Time and Gertrude Stein by Carolyn Faunce Copeland" (review)

Folder 196

"Larry Budd Vs. the Quiet Self"

Folder 197

"LHUS for the Fourth Time"

Folder 198

"The Liberal Arts in Modern Culture"

Folder 199

Liberal arts speech (undated)

Folder 200

Limestone College speech (1947)

Folder 201

"The Limits of Metaphor: A Study of Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner by James Guetti" (review)

Folder 202

Literary agents

Folder 203

"'The Literary Market Place and the Southern Writer Today' by George Core" (Holman's reply)

Folder 204

"Literary Realism: A Dominant American Mode"

Folder 205

"Literature and Culture: The Fugitive Agrarians"

Folder 206

"The Literature of Memory" (review)

Folder 207

"Literature of the Old South"

Folder 208

"Losing Battles" (review)

Folder 209

"The Lost Language"

Folder 210

"Marerez Mysse in The Pearl"

Folder 211

"The Marionettes" (review)

Folder 212

"Mark Twain"

Folder 213

"Mark Twain As Southerner"

Folder 214

"Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks" (review)

Folder 215

"Mayflower Award"

Folder 216

"Melville as Lecturer by Merton Sealts" (review)

Folder 217

Miscellaneous lecture programs

Folder 218-219

Folder 218

Folder 219

Modern Language Association, Southern Literature Session, 1978

Folder 220

"Modern Novelists and Contemporary American Society: Hemingway"

Folder 221

"The Modern Southern Historical Novel"

Folder 222-223

Folder 222

Folder 223

Mystery stories: general

Folder 224

"The Narcissistic Criticism of American Literature"

Folder 225

"The Naturalism of James T. Farrell"

Folder 226

"No More Monoliths, Please" (1980)

Folder 227

"Nonfiction in United States Literature"

Folder 228

"Norman Mailer: A Critical Study by Jean Radford" (review)

Folder 229

North Carolina Beta Club speech, 1971

Folder 230

"North Carolina Fiction, Drama, and Poetry,1955-1956"

Folder 231

"North Carolina Poetry" (review)

Folder 232

"Note on 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'"

Folder 233

"Notes on Serving Two Masters"

Folder 234

"The Novel in the South"

Folder 235-236

Folder 235

Folder 236

The Odyssey Surveys of American Writing (Holman, editor)

Folder 237

"Of Everything the Unexplained and Irresponsible Specimen: Notes on How to Read American Realism"

Folder 238-239

Folder 238

Folder 239

"The Old and New South in Recent Southern Writing"

Folder 240

"Our Age of Accountability" (1978)

Folder 241

The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future (Holman, editor)

Folder 242

The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper (Holman, editor)

Folder 243

"Planning at Chapel Hill" (1976)

Folder 244

"Plot" (for The Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1965)

Folder 245

Poems: Drafts and typescripts of poems by Holman

Folder 246

"Politics of a Literary Man" (review)

Folder 247

Popular Literature in America

Folder 248

"The Proper Audience of the Critic"

Folder 249

Publishers: Brown University Press

Folder 250

Publishers: General

Folder 251-252

Folder 251

Folder 252

Publishers: M. S. Mill Company

Folder 253

Publishers: Phoenix Press

Folder 254

Publishers: University of Kentucky Press

Folder 255

Publishers: University of Minnesota Press

Folder 256

"The Radical Return to Tradition: Modern Southern Writing"

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Folder 350

Radio plays

including correspondence, copyright notices, playscripts, and other materials, chiefly from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the radio plays were written by Holman; others were edited by him. Many plays were used in the "Forum of the Air" series, which aired in the late 1930s from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, where Holman was a student, and then director of public relations (1936-1939), director of radio programs (1939-1941), faculty member (1939-1942), and academic dean (1945-1946).

Folder 351

"Reading Outside of Class"

Folder 352

"The Rebirth of the South: Wolfe, Faulkner,Warren"

Folder 353

"The Reconciliation of Ishmael: Moby-Dick and the Book of Job"

Folder 354

"The Rediscovery of American Literature by Richard Ruland" (review)

Folder 355

"The Relevance of Literature"

Folder 356

"The Relevance of Southern Literature"

Folder 357

"Religion in the Teaching of the Humanities"

Folder 358

"Report on Out of Center by A. Carl Bredahl, Jr."

Folder 359

"A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South by Walter Sullivan" (review)

Folder 360

Review (journal)

Folder 361

"Rhetoric in Southern Writing"

Folder 362

"Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South byRollin G. Osterweis" (review)

Folder 363-364

Folder 363

Folder 364

"Roots of Southern Writing"

Folder 365

Saint James reference volume on mystery and detective writers

Folder 366

"Scott: A Novelist in Need of a Critic"

Folder 367

"Shakespeare's Handling of the Character of Julius Caesar" (1947)

Folder 368

Short stories: Drafts and typescripts of short stories by Holman

Folder 369

"The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Critical Perspectives"

Folder 370-371

Folder 370

Folder 371

Simms, William Gilmore: Notes on William Gilmore Simms

Folder 372

Simms, William Gilmore: The Forayers by William Gilmore Simms (Holman, editor)

Folder 373

Simms, William Gilmore: "The Hiawatha Meter in The Yemassee"

Folder 374

Simms, William Gilmore: "The Influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms"

Folder 375

Simms, William Gilmore: "The Letters of William Gilmore Simms" (review)

Folder 376

Simms, William Gilmore: Simms and Loyalism

Folder 377

Simms, William Gilmore: "Simms and the British Dramatists"

Folder 378

Simms, William Gilmore: Simms and the Revolution Conference (1976)

Folder 379

Simms, William Gilmore: "The Status of Simms"

Folder 380

Simms, William Gilmore: Views and Reviews of American Literature by William Gilmore Simms (Holman, editor)

Folder 381

Simms, William Gilmore: "William Gilmore Simms and the `American Renaissance'"

Folder 382-391

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Simms, William Gilmore: William Gilmore Simms as a Southern Man of Letters

Folder 392

Simms, William Gilmore: William Gilmore Simms by J.V. Ridgelyreview)

Folder 393

Simms, William Gilmore: "William Gilmore Simms's Picture of the Revolution as a Civil Conflict"

Folder 394-401

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Folder 400

Folder 401

Simms, William Gilmore: William Gilmore Simms's Theory and Practice of Historical Fiction (Holman's dissertation, 1949: signed copy and drafts)

Folder 402

Simms, William Gilmore: The Yemassee by William Gilmore Simms (Holman, editor)

Folder 403

"Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by Peerson"(review)

Folder 404

"South and Southwest by Jay B. Hubbell" (review)

Folder 405

"The South in Northern Eyes by Howard Floan" (review)

Folder 406

Southern American Writing, 1585-1800

Folder 407

Southern Association of Independent Schools speech (1966)

Folder 408

Southern Literary Classics (Holman, editor)

Folder 409

Southern Literary Study: Problems and Possibilities (Holman, editor)

Folder 410

"The Southern Literary Journal"

Folder 411

"Southern Literature in a World of Change"

Folder 412

"The Southern Novelist and Uses of the Past"

Folder 413

"The Southern Provincial in Metropolis"

Folder 414

"A Southern Reader" (review)

Folder 415

"Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South" (review)

Folder 416

Southern Writing

Folder 417

"The Southerner as American Writer"

Folder 418

"The Sovereign Wayfarer" (review)

Folder 419

"Steinbeck: A Narrow-gauge Dickens"

Folder 420

"Structural Parallels Between A Farewell to Arms and Romeo and Juliet"

Folder 421

"Theories of Convention in Contemporary American Criticism by Robert Browne" (review)

Folder 422

"This World Within Our World" (1978)

Folder 423

"Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe"

Folder 424

"Today's Student in Search of Surety"

Folder 425

"A Tradition of Learning" (1955)

Folder 426

"The Truth That Art Tells"

Folder 427

"Twelve Original Essays on Great American Novels by Charles Shapiro" (review)

Folder 428

"The Unity of Faulkner's Light in August"

Folder 429

University of Georgia Conference on Funding Research in the Humanities speech (1980)

Folder 430

University of Mississippi speech (1971)

Folder 431

University of South Carolina Commencement Speech (1977)

Folder 432

University of Southwestern Louisiana, NDEA

Folder 433

University press speech (undated)

Folder 434

"The Unwritten War" (review)

Folder 435

The View from the Regency Hyatt and Other Essays on Southern Literature

Folder 436

"Voices from the Hills" (review)

Folder 437

Weekend with Hugh Holman

Folder 438

"What An Editor Is"

Folder 439

"Who Speaks for the South? by James M. Dables" (review)

Folder 440

"The Whole Man in a Fragmented World"

Folder 441

"William Faulkner: A Study in Humanism, From Metaphor to Discourse by Joseph Gold" (review)

Folder 442-444

Folder 442

Folder 443

Folder 444

Windows on the World: Essays on American Fiction: Typescript with corrections

Folder 445-454

Folder 445

Folder 446

Folder 447

Folder 448

Folder 449

Folder 450

Folder 451

Folder 452

Folder 453

Folder 454

Wolfe, Thomas: Notes on Thomas Wolfe

Folder 455

Wolfe, Thomas: "The American Epic Impulse and Thomas Wolfe"

Folder 456

Wolfe, Thomas: "The Dark, Ruined Helen of His Blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South"

Folder 457

Wolfe, Thomas: "The Dwarf on Wolfe's Shoulder"

Folder 458

Wolfe, Thomas: "Europe as a Catalyst for Thomas Wolfe"

Folder 459

Wolfe, Thomas: The Letters of Thomas Wolfe to His Mother (Holman, editor)

Folder 460

Wolfe, Thomas: "The Loneliness at the Core" (article)

Folder 461

Wolfe, Thomas: The Loneliness at the Core (book): Correspondence and other Items, 1974-1977

Folder 462-463

Folder 462

Folder 463

Wolfe, Thomas: The Loneliness at the Core (book): Typescript

Folder 464-465

Folder 464

Folder 465

Wolfe, Thomas: The Loneliness at the Core (book): Printer's copy

Folder 466

Wolfe, Thomas: "The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe" (review)

Folder 467

Wolfe, Thomas: Of Time and the River: Young Faustus and Telemacus (Holman, editor)

Folder 468

Wolfe, Thomas: "A Portrait of an American Romantic"

Folder 469

Wolfe, Thomas: "A Portrait of Bascom Hawke"

Folder 470

Wolfe, Thomas: "The Problem of Autobiography in Thomas Wolfe"

Folder 471

Wolfe, Thomas: "Reconsideration: Of Time and the River"

Folder 472

Wolfe, Thomas: The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe (Holman, editor)

Folder 473

Wolfe, Thomas: "The Struggle Toward an American Epic: Whitman and Wolfe"

Folder 474

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thirty-Seven Octobers: A Play in Two Acts Based on the Works of Thomas Wolfe"

Folder 475

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe"

Folder 476

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe" ("for North Carolina Biographies")

Folder 477

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe by Andrew Turnbull" (review)

Folder 478

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe: A Bibliographical Study"

Folder 479

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe: Addendum 1970"

Folder 480

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe: Rhetorical Hope and Dramatic Despair"

Folder 481

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe, Scribner's Magazine, and `The Blest Nouvelle'"

Folder 482

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe and America"

Folder 483

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe and the Problem of Point of View"

Folder 484

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe and the Stigma of Autobiography"

Folder 485

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe as Artist"

Folder 486

Wolfe, Thomas: Thomas Wolfe Reader

Folder 487

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate" (review)

Folder 488

Wolfe, Thomas: "Thomas Wolfe's View of Society"

Folder 489

Wolfe, Thomas: University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers

Folder 490

Wolfe, Thomas: University of Southern Florida: Look Homeward, Angel reading, 1979

Folder 491

Wolfe, Thomas: "Wolfe and Berlin"

Folder 492

Wolfe, Thomas: "Wolfe and His Public Persona"

Folder 493

Wolfe, Thomas: "Wolfe and the Epic Tradition"

Folder 494

Wolfe, Thomas: Wolfe speech

Folder 495

Wolfe, Thomas: Wolfe tapes

Folder 496

Wolfe, Thomas: "Wolfe's Challenge to His Critics"

Folder 497

Wolfe, Thomas: "Wolfe's Letters to His Mother"

Folder 498

Wolfe, Thomas: The World of Thomas Wolfe

Folder 499

Wolfe, Thomas: "You Can't Go Home Again: Agrarian Dream and Industrial Nightmare"

Folder 500

"The Worlds of Truman Capote by William L. Nance"(review)

Folder 501

Writers of the English Language (1977)

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. Teaching and Administrative Files, 1943-1981 and undated.

About 1200 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Primarily Holman's course materials and materials pertaining to various university committees on which Holman served, to his service on the Board of Trustees of the UNC Press, and to other university matters. There is also correspondence with students and colleagues and material on honors and fellowships Holman received.

Folder 502

Cassettes: Southern Literature

Folder 503

Congratulations, letters of

Folder 504-507

Folder 504

Folder 505

Folder 506

Folder 507

Correspondence

Folder 508-538

Folder 508

Folder 509

Folder 510

Folder 511

Folder 512

Folder 513

Folder 514

Folder 515

Folder 516

Folder 517

Folder 518

Folder 519

Folder 520

Folder 521

Folder 522

Folder 523

Folder 524

Folder 525

Folder 526

Folder 527

Folder 528

Folder 529

Folder 530

Folder 531

Folder 532

Folder 533

Folder 534

Folder 535

Folder 536

Folder 537

Folder 538

Course material, 1946-1974

Folder 539

Education and early career

Folder 540

Guggenheim Fellowship (1954)

Folder 541

Guggenheim Fellowship (1967)

Folder 542

Honors, miscellaneous

Folder 543

Invitations

Folder 544

Job prospects/offers

Folder 545

Piedmont University Center Lecture series

Folder 546

Security clearance information

Folder 547-548

Folder 547

Folder 548

Students, miscellaneous

Folder 549

Teaching--background material

Folder 550

University of North Carolina: Carolina Challenge

Folder 551

University of North Carolina: College of Arts and Sciences

Folder 552

University of North Carolina: Committee on the Graduate Faculty

Folder 553

University of North Carolina: Graduate Program Review Committee

Folder 554

University of North Carolina: Housing Committee

Folder 555

University of North Carolina: Institute of Government

Folder 556

University of North Carolina: Kenan Convocation

Folder 557

University of North Carolina: Miscellaneous

Folder 558

University of North Carolina: Post-war problems and objectives of the English Department

Folder 559

University of North Carolina: Retarded students

Folder 560

University of North Carolina: State of the University Conference

Folder 561

UNC Press--Board of Governors

Folder 562

UNC Press--Reports on Manuscripts

Folder 563

University of Southern California--visiting professorship

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. Organizational and Miscellaneous Files, 1950s-1981 and undated.

About 2000 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Mostly correspondence with colleagues concerning the activities of organizations in which Holman played significant roles and positions he held on various committees and boards outside of the University of North Carolina. Included are files from Holman's presidency of the Triangle Universities Center for Academic Services and of the Southeastern American Studies Association. There are several files on the National Humanities Center from the period of Holman's tenure on the Center's board of trustees. Also included are miscellaneous materials concerning Holman's work and career and a series of files containing the unpublished works of others, such as conference papers that Holman's collected.

Folder 564

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Folder 565

American Council of Learned Societies

Folder 566

American Studies Association

Folder 567

Anti-disincentivism

Folder 568-573

Folder 568

Folder 569

Folder 570

Folder 571

Folder 572

Folder 573

Articles, notices, and press releases about Holman

Folder 574

College English

Folder 575

Committee on College Reading

Folder 576

Committee on Higher Education in New York State

Folder 577-578

Folder 577

Folder 578

Correspondence--miscellaneous personal letters

Folder 579

Covenant Presbyterian Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

Folder 580

Davidson College Symposium (1968)

Folder 581-582

Folder 581

Folder 582

Ellen Glasgow Society

Folder 583

Finance, Personal

Folder 584

Humanities Lecturers

Folder 585

Institute for Humanistic Studies (SUNY-Albany)

Folder 586-590

Folder 586

Folder 587

Folder 588

Folder 589

Folder 590

Lists of publications, curriculum vitae, etc. of Holman

Folder 591

Modern Language Association (1970)

Folder 592

Modern Language Association (1979)

Folder 593

Modern Language Association (1980-1981)

Folder 594

National Humanities Center: Articles

Folder 595

National Humanities Center: Correspondence

Folder 596

National Humanities Center: Frankel

Folder 597

National Humanities Center: Library

Folder 598

National Humanities Center: Miscellaneous

Folder 599

National Humanities Center: Newsletters

Folder 600

National Research Council Panel on Data Concerning the Education and Employment of Humanities Doctorate Recipients

Folder 601-603

Folder 601

Folder 602

Folder 603

North Carolina Department of Education Committee to Study Teacher Evaluation, Rating, and Certification

Folder 604

Odyssey Press (advisory)

Folder 605

Phi Beta Kappa

Folder 606

South Atlantic Modern Language Association (1955 meeting)

Folder 607

South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Executive Committee)

Folder 608-609

Folder 608

Folder 609

Southeastern American Studies Association

Folder 610

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

Folder 611

Southern Authors, Human Spirit (film series)

Folder 612

St. James Press, Ltd. (advisory)

Folder 613

Study of Postdoctoral Education

Folder 614

Thomas Jefferson Award Citations

Folder 615

Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies

Folder 616

University of Alabama Press (advisory)

Folder 617

Writings by others: A-B

Folder 618

Writings by others: C

Folder 619

Writings by others: D-G

Folder 620

Writings by others: Foerster

Folder 621

Writings by others: H-L

Folder 622

Writings by others: M-S

Folder 623

Writings by others: T-Z

Folder 624-625

Folder 624

Folder 625

Writings by others: Warren, Robert Penn

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 3. Correspondence, 1963-1972.

About 1500 items.

Professional correspondence, 1963-1972, with colleagues, students, former students, and others. During most of this period, Holman was provost or dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These files were assembled by one of Holman's assistants and remain in the order as received.

Folder 626

"A" miscellaneous

Folder 627

Adams, Barry and Molly

Folder 628

Byrd, Scott

Folder 629

"B" miscellaneous

Folder 630

"C" miscellaneous

Folder 631

"D" miscellaneous

Folder 632

Durham, Phillip

Folder 633

"E" miscellaneous

Folder 634

Eaton, Richard

Folder 635

"F" miscellaneous

Folder 636

Fogle, Richard

Folder 637

"G" miscellaneous

Folder 638

Garrow, Scott

Folder 639

Grenberg, Bruce

Folder 640

"H" miscellaneous

Folder 641

Health

Folder 642

"I" miscellaneous

Folder 643

"J" miscellaneous

Folder 644

"K" miscellaneous

Folder 645

"L" miscellaneous

Folder 646

"Mc" miscellaneous

Folder 647

McElderry, Bruce

Folder 648

"M" miscellaneous

Folder 649

Mebane, Mary E.

Folder 650

Methodist College

Folder 651-652

Folder 651

Folder 652

Modern Language Association, American Literature Group

Folder 653

"N" miscellaneous

Folder 654

National Council of Teachers of English

Folder 655-656

Folder 655

Folder 656

North Carolina-Virginia College English Association

Folder 657

"O" miscellaenous

Folder 658

"P" miscellaenous

Folder 659

"R" miscellaenous

Folder 660

Rehder, Jessie

Folder 661

Rubin, Louis D., Jr.

Folder 662-663

Folder 662

Folder 663

"S" miscellaneous

Folder 664

Saad, Yousseff

Folder 665

Stafford, William

Folder 666

Stern, Jerome

Folder 667

"T" miscellaneous

Folder 668

Turnbull, Andrew

Folder 669

Tuttleton, Jim

Folder 670

United States Air Force Academy

Folder 671

University of Detroit

Folder 672

"V" miscellaneous

Folder 673

"W" miscellaneous

Folder 674

Wolfe, Fred

Folder 675

Woodress, James

Folder 676

"X,""Y,""Z" miscellaneous

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 4. Audio Recordings, 1969-1977 and undated.

About 43 items.

Access to audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.

Arrangement: chronological.

Box 17

Recordings, 1969-1977

"37 Octobers" performed by the Carolina Playmakers,26 April 1969 (7" reel-to-reel).

"20th Century American Novel" lecturer: C. Hugh Holman, 1971-1972 (29-33 minute cassettes). Lectures on William Styron,Thomas Wolfe, and William Faulkner.

"Southern American Writers" by various lecturers, 1976 (20-50 minute cassettes). A series of taped lectures on the literature of the American South, organized by C. Hugh Holman for Everett/Edwards, Inc., an educational materials company.

"20th Century American Writers" lecturer: C. Hugh Holman, 1976 (26-30 minute cassettes). Three lectures on Thomas Wolfe.

"University of North Carolina, Bicentennial Addresses"1976 (60 minute cassette).

"WCHL Bicentennial Feature" by C. Hugh Holman, 1976 (cassette).

"The National Humanities Center - An Overview" by Dr. Charles Frankel, President, 8 November 1977 (60 minute cassette).

"Hemingway in Retrospect" for WBT Radio in Charlotte, N.C., undated (7" reel-to-reel).

Four tapes, contents unknown, undated (7" reel-to-reel).

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 5. Pictures.

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