Background on Harold T. McCarthy
Author, English professor, and University of Massachusetts alumnus (class of 1941) Harold T. McCarthy taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1959 and into his retirement in the late 1980s. In addition to his books on Henry James (1968) and the expatriate perspective on the idea of America (1972), he wrote fiction and poetry as well as critical articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Richard Wright.
Scope of collection
Correspondence, typescript manuscripts, poems, travel journals, and class materials including syllabi and lecture notes documenting Harold T. McCarthy's long and active career as an educator and writer, and travel experiences.
Inventory
Correspondence
1967-1969, 1982
Box 1: 2
Correspondence re: publication of books
1971-1974
Box 1: 3
The Expatriate Perspective: The Self-Discovery of American Novelists in Europe (typescript)
Box 1: 4
The Expatriate Perspective: American Novelists and the Idea of America (typescript, photocopied)
Box 1: 5
Henry James: The Creative Process (published version)
1958
Box 1: 6
Travel journals
1972-1989
Box 2: 8-17
Syllabus: English 133
Fall 1983
Box 3: 18
Syllabus: English 480C
Fall 1986
Box 3: 19
Syllabus: English 272
Fall 1986
Box 3: 20
Lecture Notes, A-K
Box 3: 21-34
Lecture Notes, L-Z
Box 4: 35-46
Administrative information
Search terms
Subjects
- American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--Sources.
- Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- College teachers--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--Sources.
- McCarthy, Harold T. Expatriate perspective.
- McCarthy, Harold T.--Archives.
- McCarthy, Harold T.--Travel.
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Alumni and alumnae --History--Sources.
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Faculty--History--Sources.
- Voyages and travels.
Contributors
- McCarthy, Harold T. [main entry]
Genres and formats
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Lecture notes.
- Syllabi.
- Typescripts.
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