Collection Summary
Bowden, Edwin T.
Edwin T. Bowden Manuscripts for The Dungeon of the Heart
1961, undated
Manuscript Collection MS-00474
1 document box (.42 linear feet), 2 galley folders (gf)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Manuscript and typescript drafts, galley
proofs, and page proofs represent The Dungeon of the Heart by
Edwin T. Bowden, a member of The University of Texas at Austin English faculty from 1956
until 1994. His text considers American fiction from James Fenimore Cooper to J. D. Salinger
and the ways in which American novelists represent the problems
of individualism and conformity.
English
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Preferred Citation
Edwin T. Bowden The Dungeon of the Heart Manuscripts
(Manuscript Collection MS-00474). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at
Austin.
Processed by:
Joan Sibley, 2019
Container List
Works:
The Dungeon of the Heart: Human Isolation and the American Novel
(1961):
1.1
Handwritten drafts with some typed inserts, 172 pages, undated.
1.2
Typescript with revisions, 185 pages, undated.
1.3
Typescript, 235 pages, undated.
1.4
Index of titles and authors, typescript, 5 pages, undated.
gf 1
Galley proofs with corrections, 54 sheets, 1961.
gf 2
Page proofs, 172 pages on long sheets with corrections, 1961.