A Preliminary Inventory of His Correspondence Collection at the Harry Ransom
Center
Creator:
Sellin, Eric, 1933-
Title:
Eric Sellin Correspondence Collection
Dates:
1954-1999
Extent:
9 boxes (3.78 linear feet)
Abstract:
The correspondence of Eric Sellin, professor of French and Francophone Literatures
at
Tulane University, reflects his scholarly activity. Areas of interest include Francophone
literature of Africa (including the Maghrib) and the Caribbean; American and Anglophone
literature, avant-garde literary movements, and comparative aesthetics. Correspondents
include artists, novelists, playwrights, philosophers, poets, scholars, critics, editors,
publishers, and journalists from around the world for a forty-five year period,
1954-1999.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-04883
Language:
English and
Afrikans
Access:
Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to
the
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Eric Sellin Correspondence (Manuscript Collection MS-04883). Harry Ransom Center,
The
University of Texas at Austin.
The correspondence of Eric Sellin, professor of French and Francophone Literatures
at
Tulane University, reflects his scholarly activity. Areas of interest include Francophone
literature of Africa (including the Maghrib) and the Caribbean; American and Anglophone
literature, avant-garde literary movements, and comparative aesthetics. Correspondents
include artists, novelists, playwrights, philosophers, poets, scholars, critics, editors,
publishers, and journalists from around the world for a forty-five year period,
1954-1999.
The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and includes clippings, essays, articles,
book reviews, and poetry.
Separated Material
Books from Eric Sellin were transferred to the Ransom Center's Library and are described
separatly in the University of Texas Library Catalog. A small number of items were
transfered to the Center's Vertical File
Collection.
