TRENT UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
Fonds Level Description
Dellamora, Professor Richard
00-003
TITLE
Professor Richard Dellamora fonds. -- 1969-2000. -- 2.3 m of textual records.
BIOGRAPHY / HISTORY
Professor Richard Dellamora was born in 1944 in the United States. He received his education at Yale, Cambridge, and Dartmouth College and has taught English and Cultural Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario since 1971. He is internationally recognized as an expert on Victorian-era literature and society with special emphasis on gay themes. In 1998 he won the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He is the author of several books and many articles.
CUSTODIAL HISTORY
This fonds was created by and in the custody of Richard Dellamora before it was donated to Trent University Archives.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This fonds consists of correspondence, research material, manuscripts and publications pertaining to the scholarly works of Professor Richard Dellamora. The materials relate largely to his publications, which include "Masculine Desire" (1990), "Apocalyptic Overtures" (1994), "Postmodern Apocalypse" (1995), "The Work of Opera" (1996), and "Victorian Sexual Dissidence" (1999), as well as several journal articles. Research notes encompass such nineteenth-century writers as Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin and Algernon Swinburne.
NOTES
Title based on the creator of the fonds.
This fonds was donated by Professor Richard Dellamora.
Restrictions: N
Finding aids: Y
FINDING AID
Series A: Research Subject Files
Box 1
Folder
1. Balzac-Lukacs
2. Balzac-Lukacs
3. Balzac-Lukacs
4. Balzac-Lukacs
5. Balzac-Lukacs
6. Balzac-Lukacs
7. Balzac-Lukacs
8. Balzac-Lukacs
9. Balzac-Lukacs
10. Barthes
11. Browning
12. Byron, Bentham & British homophobia
13. Censorship & pornography issues
14. Derrida
15. Findley
16. Forster
17. Forster
18. Hardy
19. Pater
20. Ruskin
21. Ruskin
22. Ruskin-Turner-Tintoretto
23. Sedgewick
24. Swinburne, Sappho
25. Whitman
26. Wilde
Series B: Grants
27. Correspondence & notes
28. SSHRC (Pater), 1987
29. Trent, 1989
30. Trent, 1990
31. SSHRC, 1991
32. Trent, 1991
33. Trent, 1992
34. Trent, 1993
35. Trent, 1994
36. SSHRC, 1994
Series C: Personal
37. Trent
38. Financial, house rentals
39. House rental
40. C.V. and family
loose in box. Agenda calendars: 1973, 1979, 1980 (2), 1981 (2)
Series D: Conferences, Institutes, Visiting Speaker
Box 2
Folder
1. 1986
2. 1988
3. 1990
4. 1991
5. 1993
6. 1994
7. 1995
8. 1996
9. 1996
10. 1997
11. 1998
12. 1999
Series E: Correspondence
13. 1969-1979
14. 1980
15. 1981
16. 1982
17. 1983
18. 1984
19. 1985
20. 1986
21. 1987
22. 1988
23. 1989
Box 3
Correspondence (cont'd)
Folder
1. 1990
2. 1991
3. 1992
4. 1993
5. 1994
6. 1995
Box 4
Correspondence (cont'd)
Folder
1. 1996
2. 1997
3. 1999-2000
Series F: Masculine Desire
Box 5
Folder
1. Notes & ideas
2. Research notes
3. Research notes
4. Research notes
5. Introduction (draft)
6. Pater
7. Comments on Pater
8. Comments on Tennyson
9. Correspondence: Yale University Press
10. Correspondence: Routledge
11. Correspondence: Tennessee University Press
12. Correspondence: University of Chicago Press
13. Correspondence: University of North Carolina
14. General correspondence
15. Book proposals: letters to editors
16. Project description
17. Readers' reports
18. Counterpoise: article by Dellamora
Series G: Apocalyptic Overtures
19. Research notes
20. Research notes
21. Book proposal
22. Correspondence: Indiana University Press
23. Permissions
24. Marketing
25. Final copy editing
26. Index
27. "Absent bodies..."
28. "Oracle..."
29. "Swimming Pool Library"
30. Readers' Reports
loose in box: Manuscripts
Series H: Postmodern Apocalypse
Box 6
Folder
1. Contents & preface
2. Introduction
3. Hewitt
4. Boyardin
5. Robson
6. Cooper
7. Carpenter
8. Heffernan
9. Pask
10. Howell
11. Dickinson
12. Wershler
13. Keep
14. Schwenger
15. Copy editing
16. ACCUTE Session
17. Research notes
18. Correspondence with publishers
19. Biographies of contributors
20. Illustrations
21. General correspondence
22. Book launch
Series I: The Work of Opera
23. Permissions
24. Introductions and acknowledgements
25. Index
26. Coelho
27. Gilman
28. Miller Frank
29. Solie
30. Smith
31. McClary
32. Kramer
33. Locke
34. Fischlin
35. Hutcheon
36. Dellamora: research
37. Dellamora
38. Ellis
39. Kopelson
40. Leonardi & Pope
41. Prospective writers
42. Prospectus
43. Readers' comments
44. Correspondence: Columbia University Press
Box 7
Work of Opera (cont'd)
Folder
1. Publishing contract
2. Correspondence: New York University Press
3. Correspondence: Stanford University Press
4. Copy editing
5. General correspondence
loose in box: Manuscript
Series J: Victorian Sexual Dissidence
Box 8
Folder
1. Publisher agreement: University of Chicago Press
2. Correspondence with publisher
3. Permissions
4. Dellamora speaking at Harvard
5. Contributors
6. Readers' reports
7. Williams
8. Emerson
9. Bernheimer
10. Mavor
11. Introduction
12. Psomiades
13. Prins
14. Vicinus
15. Morgan
16. Gagnier
17. Denisoff
Box 9
Victorian Sexual Dissidence (cont'd)
Folder
1. Buckton
2. Haralson
3. Lane
4. Sulcer
5. Saville
6. Hewitt
Series K: Research notes
Box 10
Folder
1. Research ideas and notes
2. Comments by Dellamora on articles & books by others
3. Comments by Dellamora on articles & books by others
4. Comments by Dellamora on articles & books by others
5. Comments by Dellamora on articles & books by others
6. Comments by Dellamora on articles & books by others
7. Comments by Dellamora on Christopher Lane and Tim Dean
8. Comments by Dellamora on Hewitt
9. Comments by Dellamora on Boone
10. Comments by Dellamora on Goddard
11. Comments by Dellamora on Martindale
12. Comments by Dellamora on Berger
Series L: Book Reviews
13. Book review by Dellamora: Craft
14. Book review by Dellamora: Zatlin
15. Book review by Dellamora: Buckton
16. Book review by Dellamora: Bann
17. Book review by Dellamora: Small
18. Book review by Dellamora: Ledger & McCracken
19. Book review by Dellamora: Koestenbaum
20. Book review by Dellamora: Vicinus
21. Book review by Dellamora: Thomas
22. Book review by Dellamora: Ellmann
Box 11
Book reviews (cont'd)
Folder
1. Book review by Dellamora: Rowe
2. Book review by Dellamora: Jeffrey-Poulter
3. Book review by Dellamora: Chamberlain
4. Book review by Dellamora: Stavchansky
5. Book review by Dellamora: Bristow
6. Book review by Dellamora: Perl
7. Book review by Dellamora: Gagnier, Porter & Weeks, Sedgwick, Summers
8. Book review by Dellamora: Brake, Dowling, Sinfield
Series M: Research: Dellamora articles
9. "Aids and the ends of man"
10. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century World History
11. "Effeminacy, apocalypse…", "Resisting degeneration…" - Kushner
12. The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
13. Humanities Research Day presentation, Trent University, 1999
14. "In search of purity"
15. Methodologies program, Trent University, 1996
16. P.M.L.A. forum, 1996
17. "Queering modernism…" - Glassco, Callaghan
18. "Responsibilities, deconstruction…" (Canadian Review of Comparative Literature)
19. "Responsibilities, deconstruction…" (Canadian Review of Comparative Literature)
20. "Revising the Canon"
21. "Textual politics / sexual politics"
22. "Types of androgyny"
23. "Unsettling difference"
24. "Writing the church"
25. "A Victorian optic"
Series N: Miscellaneous newsletters, magazines, catalogues, programmes
26. Catalogues and programmes relating to artists and art shows
loose in box: Lesbian & Gay Studies Newsletter, 1980-1997, plus numerous miscellaneous newsletters & magazines
Box 12
Miscellaneous additions added in 2001: personal files and research notes