A Note on the James and Hawthorne Sections in Leary's Articles on American Literature, 1968-1975

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A Note on the James and Hawthorne Sections in Leary's Articles on American Literature, 1968-1975 •I The publication of Lewis Leary's Articles on American Literature, 1968-1975 (Durham, N. C: Duke Univ. Press, 1979) has been a most welcome event. Together with Leary's two earlier volumes (1900-1950; 1950-1967), It forms a most handy, extremely Indispensable bibliographical tool In American literature. Since my main interest in American literature is in the influence of Hawthorne's works on James's, it is the entries dealing with this relationship that I have checked closely. A bibliographical work of AAL's magnitude is bound to have certain errors. Some of them are understandable. Thus on pp. 235, 290, we have Babukia instead of Babiiha, the misspelling duplicated probably from Woodress's American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1974 (Durham, N. C: Duke Univ. Press, 1967), p. 27, which had received an offprint (with the correct spelling) of the article from the Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal. On pp. 247, 300, we have Marovitz Instead of Morovitz; on p. 249 we have Rochner instead of Bochner, as is correctly entered on pp. 236, 291; and on p. 298 we have Karitz Instead of Karita. This last entry has also Shud alsentaku Instead of the correct Shudai-sentaku. Most of the above errors should have been caught in page proofs. So should the duplicate entry of C. E. Frazer Clark's article, "H to 'Mr. Ex-Card lna I ."· NHJ, 1:72-81 (1971). This entry is printed twice on p. 238. Two other minor errors need mention. John McElroy's second article on p. 246 is not "The H Style in American Fiction" but rather "The H Style of American Fiction," as is correctly given on p. 300. And the last word in the title of Charles L. Crow's article on p. 293 is not Soved but Solved [1975 MLA International Bibliography, I, item 9154). I had guessed Shoved. Many other errors, however, are quite serious. Sonja Basic's article on p. 291 has no publication information. This article is In Studia Románica et Angllca Zagrablensla, 33-36 (1972-73), 293-303 [1974 MLA International Bibliography, I, Item 97711. Another article without publication information is Adeline R. Tintner's "J's Monologue for Ruth Draper and The Tragic Muse: A Parody of the 'Usurping Consciousness" on p. 306. This article is In Studies in English Literature (English Number [English Literary Society of Japanl), 1974, pp. 149-54 [1974 MLA International Bibliography, I, item 9854]. The publication information for John McElroy's "The H Style of American Literature" is given on p. 246 as ESQ, 19; on p. 300 it is given as ESQ, 71. The correct reference Is ESQ, n.s. 19. Leary's sources were probably both the 1973 MLA International Bibliography, I, item 8393, which gives vol. 71, and Woodress's American Literary Scholarship: An Annua 1/1973 (Durham, N. C: Duke UnIv. Press, 1975), p. 19, which gives vol. 19. Jane Gottschalk's article on pp. 242, 295, Is not in vol. 6 of Wisconsin Studies in Literature but in vol. 4. Charles T. Samuel's "Giovanni and the Governess" on p. 250 is not in American Speech but in American Scholar. This last error is probably duplicated from Beatrice Ricks's Nathan Ie I Hawthorne: A Reference BIbIiography, 1900-1971 (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972), Item 2049. "Giovanni and the Governess," of course, is on both Hawthorne's Giovanni Guasconti in "Rappacci η I's Daughter" and James's governess in The Turn of the Screw. But Leary records this article only under Hawthorne, and not under James as well. Allen Tate's "Three Commentaries: Poe, James, and Joyce" on p. 305 is not in Classical Review, 58 (Winter 1950), 5-10; it is In Sewanee Review, 58 (Winter 1950), 1-15. This article is recorded only under James, and not under Poe as well. In Articles on American Literature, 1900-1950 (Durham, N. C: Duke Univ. Press, 1954), p. 247, this article appears under Poe, but not under James. One other article which clearly belongs to both Hawthorne and James is recorded only under James on...