Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• SERIES LIST
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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Eric A. Blackall papers, [ca.1939-1989]
Collection Number: 14-18-2761

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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Series I. Class notes	Boxes 1-4
Series II. Manuscript of unpublished German version of Goethe and the Novel; other manuscripts, drafts, and typescripts	Box 5
Series III. Manuscripts, drafts, and typescripts; correspondence, records of the Department of German Literature at Cornell (RESTRICTED in part)	Box 6
Series IV. Correspondence, records of the Department of German Literature at Cornell; biographical material; lectures	Boxes 7-9
Series V. Cambridge University class notes; other miscellaneous papers	Box 10
Series VI. RESTRICTED	Box 11

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Class notes
Box 1	Folder 1	Goethe (grad)
Box 1	Folder 2	Goethe
Box 1	Folder 3-5	Faust
Box 1	Folder 6-7	355 Goethe
Box 1	Folder 8	Goethe as Dramatist
Box 1	Folder 9	Hamann
Box 1	Folder 10-11	Medieval
Box 1	Folder 12	Austria
Box 1	Folder 13	Baroque
Box 1	Folder 14	Bibliography
Box 1	Folder 15	Büchner
Box 1	Folder 16-21	Wagner
Box 1	Folder 22	Seminar: From the Wanderjahre to the Buddenbrooks
Box 1	Folder 23	Dostoevski
Box 1	Folder 24	Kant
Box 1	Folder 25	Heine
Box 1	Folder 26	Lessing
Box 1	Folder 27	German Comedy 1660-1800
Box 1	Folder 28-29	Germany 1850-1890
Box 1	Folder 30-31	Germany 1890-1914
Box 1	Folder 32	Schiller
Box 1	Folder 33-34	Schiller Centenary Lecture
Box 1	Folder 35-36	Schnitzler
Box 1	Folder 37-39	German History 1792-1914
Box 1	Folder 40-41	1954 - 16th Century Germany
Box 1	Folder 42-43	17th German
Box 1	Folder 44	Austria
Box 1	Folder 45-46	1954 - The Young Herder
Box 1	Folder 47-48	1952 - The Gothic Language in its Teutonic Setting
Box 1	Folder 49-50	Lectures I-IX - The Growth of the German Vocabulary
Box 1	Folder 51-52	Lectures X-XVI - The Growth of the German Vocabulary
Box 2	Folder 1-2	History of German Language - Second Year I
Box 2	Folder 3-4	History of German Language - Second Year II
Box 2	Folder 5-6	History of German Language - Third Year I
Box 2	Folder 7-9	History of German Language - Third Year II
Box 2	Folder 10-11	Reader
Box 2	Folder 12	Sturm und Drang
Box 2	Folder 13	Hofmannsthal
Box 2	Folder 14	(material for) The Shadow of Brecht
Box 2	Folder 15	Heinrich von Kleist
Box 2	Folder 16	Nietzsche
Box 2	Folder 17	Keller
Box 2	Folder 18-23	"To be sorted"
Box 2	Folder 24	German
Box 2	Folder 25	Chapter I Leibnitz and Thomasius
Box 2	Folder 26	Chapter II Christian Wolff
Box 2	Folder 27-29	Chapter IV Gottsched and the Stabilization of the ....[?]
Box 2	Folder 30-31	Chapter V Theory of Prose Style; Chapter VI Development of Narrative Prose
Box 2	Folder 32	18th Century Fausts other than Goethe
Box 2	Folder 33-34	In Progress: Nürnberger
Box 2	Folder 35	Nürnberger (copy)
Box 2	Folder 36-37	Goethe's Poetry
Box 2	Folder 38	19th Century Fausts
Box 2	Folder 39-41	20th Century Fausts
Box 2	Folder 42-44	Novel - 18th Century
Box 2	Folder 45	Chapter III - the Library Journals
Box 2	Folder 46-48	Romantic Theory of the Novel
Box 2	Folder 49	Novel (general)
Box 2	Folder 50-52	Novels
Box 3	Folder 1-2	Arnim - general
Box 3	Folder 3	Bonaventura - Nachtwachen
Box 3	Folder 4	Brentano - Godwi, Galeerensklave [?]
Box 3	Folder 5	Brentano - general
Box 3	Folder 6-8	Eichendorff - general
Box 3	Folder 9	Fichte
Box 3	Folder 10	Hoffman - general
Box 3	Folder 11	Hoffman - novels
Box 3	Folder 12	Hölderlin - general
Box 3	Folder 13	Hölderlin - Hyperion
Box 3	Folder 14-15	Immermann (general)
Box 3	Folder 16-17	The Artistic Texture of Die Epigonen
Box 3	Folder 18	Louvet de Couvray
Box 3	Folder 19	Novalis - general
Box 3	Folder 20-21	Novalis - Novels and Novel Theory
Box 3	Folder 22-23	Jean Paul - general
Box 3	Folder 24	Schelling
Box 3	Folder 25	A. W. Schlegel
Box 3	Folder 26	Dorothea Schlegel
Box 3	Folder 27	F. Schlegel - Lucinda
Box 3	Folder 28-30	Friedrich Schlegel
Box 3	Folder 31	Romantic Science and Lebens . . .[?]
Box 3	Folder 32-34	Tieck - general
Box 3	Folder 35	Tieck - novels
Box 3	Folder 36	Wackenroder
Box 3	Folder 37-40	Romanticism
Box 3	Folder 41	17th Century Novels - analyses
Box 3	Folder 42	Lenau
Box 3	Folder 43	Don Juan and Faust (Ms.)
Box 3	Folder 44	Don Juan and Faust I
Box 3	Folder 45-47	Don Juan and Faust II
Box 3	Folder 48	Goethe and the Novel Part I
Box 3	Folder 49-50	Goethe and the Novel Part II
Box 3	Folder 51	Goethe and the Novel Form Chapter II
Box 3	Folder 52	Goethe and Mme. de Staël
Box 3	Folder 53	Benjamin Constant and Goethe - footnotes
Box 3	Folder 54	Chateaubriand
Box 3	Folder 55	Goethe and Rousseau
Box 3	Folder 56-59	Goethe and the Novelists Chapter I
Box 3	Folder 60	1964 - The Narrator in Goethe's Werther
Box 3	Folder 61	III Werther - The First
Box 3	Folder 62	Chapter V - The Second Werther
Box 3	Folder 63	Chapter IV Sendung
Box 3	Folder 64-67	Lehrjahre - Critical Comment
Box 4	Folder 1-2	Wahlverwandtschaften
Box 4	Folder 3-4	The First Wanderjahre
Box 4	Folder 4	The False Wanderjahre
Box 4	Folder 6	Wilhelm Meister's "pious pilgrimage"
Box 4	Folder 7	1962 - Unterhaltungen
Box 4	Folder 8	Dichtung und Wahrheit
Box 4	Folder 9	Stella
Box 4	Folder 10	Jena Review
Box 4	Folder 11	Chinese Novel
Box 4	Folder 12	Lit. 309 Development of European Novel I
Box 4	Folder 13	Wezel
Box 4	Folder 14	Great Moments Lectures 1-5
Box 4	Folder 15	Great Moments Lectures 6-10
Box 4	Folder 16	Great Moments Lectures 11-15
Box 4	Folder 17	Great Moments Lectures 16-20
Box 4	Folder 18	Great Moments Lectures 21-26a
Box 4	Folder 19	Great Moments Lectures 27-32
Box 4	Folder 20	Great Moments Lectures 33-36
Box 4	Folder 21	Great Moments Lectures 37-40
Box 4	Folder 22	Great Moments Lectures 42-46a
Box 4	Folder 23	Great Moments Lectures 47-50
Box 4	Folder 24	Great Moments Lectures 51-57
Box 4	Folder 25	Great Moments Lectures 58-60
Box 4	Folder 26	Great Moments Lectures 61-70
Box 4	Folder 27	Great Moments Lectures 71-76
Box 4	Folder 28	Great Moments Lectures 77-82
Box 4	Folder 29	Novels of the Romantic Era I
Box 4	Folder 30	Novels of the Romantic Era II
Box 4	Folder 31	Romantic Novels - Jean Paul Richter
Box 4	Folder 32	18th Century Novels - analyses
Box 4	Folder 33	Goethe - Proserpina (+ Triumph der Empfindsamkeit)
Box 4	Folder 34	Proserpina
Box 4	Folder 35	20th Century Fausts
Box 4	Folder 36	20th Century Fausts (for Indiana)
Box 4	Folder 37	1957 - The Language of Sturm und Drang
Box 4	Folder 38	Faust Material - London
Box 4	Folder 39	Faust - London text
Box 4	Folder 40	Goethe
Box 4	Folder 41	Don Juan and Faust
Box 4	Folder 42	The Buch des Unmuts in Goethe's West-Östlicher Divan
Box 4	Folder 43	The Language of Heaven: Reflections of the Bergschluchten"
Box 4	Folder 44	Material for Language of Heaven
Box 4	Folder 45	Woldemar Nürnberger and His Faust
Box 4	Folder 46	Offprints by Blackall
Box 4	Folder 47	The Language of Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen
Box 4	Folder 48	The German Literary Language in 1776
Box 4	Folder 49	"Fernando's Problem"
Box 4	Folder 50	A Planned Volume Essays (Nov. 1987)
Box 4	Folder 51	Raabe [?]
Box 4	Folder 52	#2 "The Language of Heaven: Reflections of the Bergschluchten
Box 4	Folder 53	#5 Lotte and Ossian
Box 4	Folder 54	#9 The Language of Egmont
Box 4	Folder 55	#11 "Faust's Temptation in the Wilderness"
Box 4	Folder 56	#12 The Buch des Unmuts in Goethe's West-Östlicher Divan
Box 4	Folder 57	"Faust's Last Speech"
		Series II. Manuscript of unpublished German version of Goethe and the Novel; other manuscripts, drafts, and typescripts
		Scope and Contents Note by Jean F. Blackall on Goethe und der Roman: "This is the original ms. and it is longer than the one subsequently published by the Cornell University Press in English. The English Version was written from this ms."
Box 5	Folder 1-3	18th Century Novel
Box 5	Folder 4	Romantic Novel
Box 5	Folder 5	Correspondence and Table of Contents re: projected posthumous Goethe book
Box 5	Folder 6-7	Assorted Essay Project
Box 5	Folder 8	Olschner - re: Goethe book
Box 5	Folder 9	Reviews of the German Romantic Novel
Box 5	Folder 10	My Faust Essays (towards a book?)
Box 5	Folder 11-27	First copy - unpublished ms. of German Version of Goethe and the Novel
Box 5	Folder 28-29	Goethe and the Novel footnotes
Box 5	Folder 30	Second copy of Goethe und der Roman: German ms. of Goethe and the Novel (unpublished) 1-4
Box 5	Folder 31	Second copy of Goethe und der Roman: German ms. of Goethe and the Novel (unpublished) 5-8
Box 5	Folder 32	Second copy of Goethe und der Roman: German ms. of Goethe and the Novel (unpublished) 9-13
Box 5	Folder 33	Second copy of Goethe und der Roman: German ms. of Goethe and the Novel (unpublished) 14-16
Box 5	Folder 34	Second copy of Goethe und der Roman: German ms. of Goethe and the Novel (unpublished) 17-20
Box 5	Folder 35	Second copy of Goethe und der Roman: German ms. of Goethe and the Novel (unpublished) 21-24
Box 5	Folder 36	Footnotes - Chapter 1-13
Box 5	Folder 37	XV Goethe, etc.
Box 5	Folder 38	XV Sturm und Drang
Box 5	Folder 39-41	The Golden Touch
Box 5	Folder 42	The Language of Sturm und Drang - 1957 paper
Box 5	Folder 43	John Paul Schiller lecture
		Series III. Manuscripts, drafts, and typescripts; correspondence, records of the Department of German Literature at Cornell (RESTRICTED in part)
		Access restricted
Box 6	Folder 1	Footnotes - Chapter 14-end +
Box 6	Folder 2-3	Style II Emergence - Chapter 11 - The Prose of Maturity
Box 6	Folder 4-5	Style II Chapter 10 - The Grand Manner
Box 6	Folder 6	Style II Chapter 9 - The revival of metaphor
Box 6	Folder 7-8	Style II Chapter 8 - The development of the poetical medium
Box 6	Folder 9-10	Style II Chapter 7 - The Language of Poetry
Box 6	Folder 11-13	Style III Emergence - Chapter 12 - Art and Feeling
Box 6	Folder 14-15	Style III Chapter 13 - The Mystical
Box 6	Folder 16-17	Style III Chapter 14 - The Return to Origins
Box 6	Folder 18	Arts College Faculty
Box 6	Folder 19	Graduate Field - German, 1972-77
Box 6	Folder 20	Graduate Exam Questions, 1967
Box 6	Folder 21	English Goethe Society
Box 6	Folder 22	Goethe in der Roman, 1973-74
Box 6	Folder 23	Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Lecture
Box 6	Folder 24	Goethe and the Novel, 1976-84
Box 6	Folder 25	Goethe and the Novel, 1975
Box 6	Folder 26	Freshman Seminar, 1979
Box 6	Folder 27	London Lecture Materials - Faust, 1976
Box 6	Folder 28	London Lectures, 1976
Box 6	Folder 29	Faust Conference, October 1987
Box 6	Folder 30	Emergence (German), 1966-76
Box 6	Folder 31	Emergence, 1971-81
Box 6	Folder 32	Emergence, 1959-65
Box 6	Folder 33	18th Century Studies
Box 6	Folder 34	Departmental Meetings - minutes, 1984
Box 6	Folder 35-36	Cornell University Press, 1959-84
Box 6	Folder 37	Hefner and Sons, 1958-78
Box 6	Folder 38	Grant and Cuttler Ltd. (International), 1977-78
Box 6	Folder 39	Avalon Chair, 1964
Box 6	Folder 40	American Philosophical Society, 1976-88
Box 6	Folder 41	American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Box 6	Folder 42-47	RESTRICTED until 2014
		Access restricted
Box 6	Folder 48-49	Retirement 1984-85
Box 6	Folder 50-52	Graduate Students, 1968-81
		Series IV. Correspondence, records of the Department of German Literature at Cornell; biographical material; lectures
		Scope and Contents Note by Jean F. Blackall: "In the file marked 'Various Lectures' and in folders throughout these boxes there are typescripts of many public lectures given by Eric Blackall. Though many of his lectures were published, I believe that there are others here which have not."
Box 7	Folder 1	Grillparzer Lecture
Box 7	Folder 2	Guggenheim Foundation
Box 7	Folder 3	Harvard - Visiting Committee, 1979-84
Box 7	Folder 4	Hull Fund
Box 7	Folder 5	Husa - Ode, 1967-68
Box 7	Folder 6	Internationale Vereinigung für Germanische Sprachen (IVG), 1979
Box 7	Folder 7-8	London Lectures, 1984
Box 7	Folder 9	Various Personal
Box 7	Folder 10	Metzler, 1968-76
Box 7	Folder 11	Metzler - Goethe, 1979-86
Box 7	Folder 12	Modern Language Association, 1979-86
Box 7	Folder 13-14	Novels of the Romantics
Box 7	Folder 15	Phi Beta Kappa
Box 7	Folder 16-17	Schurman Professorship
Box 7	Folder 18	Society for the Humanities
Box 7	Folder 19-20	Suhrkampf - Goethe Edition, 1988
Box 7	Folder 21	University Faculty, 1984
Box 7	Folder 22	Vienna Lecture, 1982-84
Box 7	Folder 23-24	Goethe Edition
Box 7	Folder 25	Blackall Biographical File
Box 7	Folder 26	Memorial Articles
Box 7	Folder 27	Memorial Service Program
Box 7	Folder 28	Personal
Box 7	Folder 29	General Personal
Box 7	Folder 30-34	Politzer - Correspondence and Lectures
Box 7	Folder 35-38	Aufklärung
Box 7	Folder 39	Hegel
Box 7	Folder 40	Kleist
Box 7	Folder 41	"To be arranged"
Box 7	Folder 42	Droste-Hulshoff
Box 7	Folder 43-44	Goethe (notes)
Box 7	Folder 45	Herder
Box 7	Folder 46	Schmohl
Box 7	Folder 47	Büchner
Box 7	Folder 48	Die Mitschuldigen
Box 7	Folder 49	Nineteenth Century Drama
Box 7	Folder 50	Kafka's Stoker
Box 7	Folder 51-52	Kafka
Box 7	Folder 53	Kafka's Vision of America
Box 7	Folder 54	Galileo
Box 7	Folder 55	Jean Paul
Box 7	Folder 56	Philosophical Background
Box 7	Folder 57	Junges Deutschland
Box 7	Folder 58	Feuchtersleben
Box 7	Folder 59	Mörike
Box 7	Folder 60	Sealsfield
Box 7	Folder 61	Stifter
Box 8	Folder 1	Tolstoy
Box 8	Folder 2	Wieland
Box 8	Folder 3	Hebbel
Box 8	Folder 4-5	Grillparzer
Box 8	Folder 6	Various Lectures
Box 8	Folder 7	Various Notes - E.T.A. Hoffman
Box 8	Folder 8	Great Moments Lectures
Box 8	Folder 9	Great Moments Lectures: Faust and the devils
Box 8	Folder 10	Great Moments Lectures: Faust questioning Mephistopheles
Box 8	Folder 11	Great Moments Lectures: Der römische Brunnen
Box 8	Folder 12	Great Moments Lectures: Strasburg, Frankfurt, Wetzler, Weimar
Box 8	Folder 13	Great Moments Lectures: Poems by Josef von Eichendorff
Box 8	Folder 14	Great Moments Lectures: Stefan George
Box 8	Folder 15	Great Moments Lectures: Romantic theory of poetry
Box 8	Folder 16	Great Moments Lectures: The originality of Heinrich von Kleist
Box 8	Folder 17	Great Moments Lectures: Stifter on the great and the small
Box 8	Folder 18	Great Moments Lectures: Friedrich Schlegel - Universalpoesie
Box 8	Folder 19	Great Moments Lectures: Schlegel - Selected fragments
Box 8	Folder 20	Great Moments Lectures: Rilke's Ninth Duino Elegy
Box 8	Folder 21	Great Moments Lectures: Brecht and Mutter Courage
Box 8	Folder 22	Great Moments Lectures: Tieck - Die verkehrte Welt
Box 8	Folder 23	Great Moments Lectures: Romantic Drama
Box 8	Folder 24	Great Moments Lectures: Minnesang
Box 8	Folder 25	Great Moments Lectures: Hildebrandslied
Box 8	Folder 26	["---wondrous picture that I can sketch for myself of music ..."]
Box 8	Folder 27	Simplicius Simplicissimus
Box 8	Folder 28	Walter - stencil 5
Box 8	Folder 29	Some Early Poetic Moments - stencil 3
Box 8	Folder 30	Tristan and the language of love - stencil 7
Box 8	Folder 31	Some passages from Parzival - stencil 8
Box 8	Folder 32	Naive and Sentimental Poetry - stencil 15
Box 8	Folder 33	["Friedrich sagte ..."]
Box 8	Folder 34	German 201 - "Dort hoch auf jenem Berge ..."
Box 8	Folder 35	German 417 - Great Moments
Box 8	Folder 36	A. W. Schlegel - Berlin Lectures (first sections)
Box 8	Folder 37	Romantic Materials
Box 8	Folder 38	Passage from Wackenroder's Herzensergiessungen
Box 8	Folder 39	Nietzsche on the World
Box 8	Folder 40	Poems by Mörike
Box 8	Folder 41	Goethe - Faust, Act IV Summary
Box 8	Folder 42	The 1587 Faust book
Box 8	Folder 43	Lessing - Nathan
Box 8	Folder 44	Great Moments - 12A
Box 8	Folder 45	Herder and King Lear
Box 8	Folder 46	The great moments in Goethe's Weimar drama
Box 8	Folder 47	Goethe on his own Novelle
Box 8	Folder 48	Poetry translated for course 39-D
Box 8	Folder 49	Selections of German Poetry from the Beginning to 1720 - for German 39-A
Box 8	Folder 50	Death and the Plowman
Box 8	Folder 51	Selections from Twelve German Poets of the Nineteenth Century for German 39-C
Box 8	Folder 52	Der St. Stephansdom in Wien
Box 8	Folder 53	Maps
Box 9	Folder 1	Peasant Bardolatry: Uli Bräker and his Shakespeare book - paper, 1973
Box 9	Folder 2-4	Swiss Peasant - Bräker
Box 9	Folder 5	Bräker Materials
Box 9	Folder 6	Ulrich Bräker und Eschenburg
Box 9	Folder 7	Correspondence, 1988-89
Box 9	Folder 8	Lectures for 201-202
Box 9	Folder 9	"General - Scholarly"
Box 9	Folder 10	The Novels of the German Romantics - Lectures to Society for the Humanities
Box 9	Folder 11	Harvard Lectures, 1966
Box 9	Folder 12	Art and Reality - Goethe's Novels
Box 9	Folder 13	Cornell Lecture, 1967
Box 9	Folder 14	Sense and Nonsense in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
		Series V. Cambridge University class notes; other miscellaneous papers
		Scope and Contents Note by Jean F. Blackall: "Eric gave a very popular course called `Great Moments in German Literature' - sometimes known as `Eric's Great Moments.' The lectures are among his papers but I do not know whether the selections to which they refer are identified other than by these mimeographs."
Box 10	Folder 1	Great Moments: Heine - Doctor Faust
Box 10	Folder 2	Great Moments: Heine's Irony
Box 10	Folder 3	Great Moments: Appollonian and Dionysian
Box 10	Folder 4	Great Moments: Schedule
Box 10	Folder 5	Great Moments: Keller and the "golden superfluity of life"
Box 10	Folder 6	Great Moments: Brecht - Episches Theater
Box 10	Folder 7	Hauptmenn's Die Weber - High German translation
Box 10	Folder 8	Nibelungenlied - stencil 6
Box 10	Folder 9	Unverhofftes Wiedersehen
Box 10	Folder 10	The fruits of Enlightenment
Box 10	Folder 11	Faust - Part II
Box 10	Folder 12	Plain speaking and plain thinking
Box 10	Folder 13	Hebbel's conception of drama
Box 10	Folder 14-21	Material for History of the German Language
Box 10	Folder 22	"Miscellaneous - unsorted"
Box 10	Folder 23	Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Electra
		Series VI. RESTRICTED
		Access restricted
Box 11		Contains folders 42-47 from Box 6, which are restricted until 2014
		Series VII. Microfilms and audiotapes
		Microfilm: Nicolaus Vogt, Die Rhein am Rhein
		Microfilm: Christian August Vulpius, Don Juan den Wüstling ...
	tr6784a, tr6785a	Audiocassettes of Blackall's memorial service of 27 January 1990