Papers of Roy Harvey Pearce (1919-2012), scholar, critic, and founder of the UCSD literature department and the Archive for New Poetry. Included is correspondence regarding a wide variety of topics, for example, Jack Spicer research and the creation of the poetry archive. Correspondents include Robert Bly, David Ignatow, and Marshall McLuhan. Also included are a number of Pearce's scholarly projects (including the "Transcendental Workbook") and notes for several lectures.
Roy Harvey Pearce Papers, 1945-1995 (MSS 143)
Extent: 12.6 Linear feet (33 archives boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Roy Harvey Pearce (1919-2012) has had a long and distinguished career in the field of literature. The founding father of both the UCSD literature department and the UCSD Archive for New Poetry, Pearce has also taught at the Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of The Savages of America/Savagism in Civilization (1953/1983), The Continuity of American Poetry (1961), Hawthorne Centenary Essays (1964), Historicism Once More (1969), and Gesta Humanorum: Studies in the Historicist Mode, as well as being the editor of Colonial American Writing (1950) and a general editor of The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1962).
Papers of Roy Harvey Pearce (1919-2012), scholar, critic, and founder of the UCSD literature department and the Archive for New Poetry. Included is correspondence regarding a wide variety of topics, for example, Jack Spicer research and the creation of the poetry archive. Correspondents include Robert Bly, David Ignatow, and Marshall McLuhan. Also included are a number of Pearce's scholarly projects (including the "Transcendental Workbook") and notes for several lectures.
Accession Processed in 1995
The Roy Harvey Pearce correspondence and subject files contain abundant correspondence with writers and scholars, typescripts, holograph notes, and manuscripts related to scholarly projects and lectures. Included are correspondence with notable figures such as Robert Bly, Clayton Eshleman, and the Canadian communications theorist, Marshall McLuhan. Subject files contain a wide variety of material: notes on the opening of Mandeville Center, correspondence and research regarding Jack Spicer, and a meticulously compiled "Transcendental Workbook."
Arranged in four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) SCHOLARLY PROJECTS, 3) ARCHIVE FOR NEW POETRY, and 4) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
Accession Processed in 2003
The accession processed in 2003 contains correspondence with scholars, colleagues, writers, and students; lecture notes and teaching materials for literature courses taught at UCSD; administrative memoranda; and subject files.
Arranged in five series: 5) CORRESPONDENCE, 6) WRITINGS, 7) TEACHING MATERIALS, 8) SUBJECT FILES, and 9) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
Accession Processed in 2007
The accession processed in 2007 contains correspondence with scholars, colleagues, writers, and students; published books, articles and reviews; editorial projects; manuscript reading reports for different presses; talks and conferences; writings of others; and miscellaneous materials.
Arranged in eleven series: 10) CORRESPONDENCE, 11) BOOKS, 12) ARTICLES AND ESSAYS, 13) REVIEWS, 14) EDITORIAL PROJECTS, 15) PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS, 16) TALKS AND READINGS, 17) TEACHING MATERIALS, 18) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, 19) MANUSCRIPT READING REPORTS, and 20) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.