Guide to the Eric A. Blackall Papers,
ca. 1939-1989

Collection Number: 14-18-2761

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
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Cornell University
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Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
July 1994
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, February 2002

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Eric A. Blackall papers, ca. 1939-1989
Collection Number:
14-18-2761
Creator:
Eric A. (Eric Albert) Blackall, 1914-1989.
Quantity:
8.2 cubic ft.; 2 audiocassettes; 2 reels negative microfilm.
Forms of Material:
Lecture notes, drafts, typescripts, biographical material, financial papers, correspondence, letters of recommendation, microfilm, audiocassettes, and department files.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Lecture notes, drafts and typescripts for articles and books, including Goethe and the Novel; also lecture notes and texts for his course "Great Moments in German Literature"; notes from Cambridge University; biographical material, financial papers, correspondence, letters of recommendation, and audiocassettes of Blackall's memorial service of 27 January 1990; and German Literature Department files.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Scholar and critic of German and Austrian literature. Cornell University Professor of German literature.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Lecture notes, drafts and typescripts for articles and books, including Goethe and the Novel; also lecture notes and texts for his course "Great Moments in German Literature"; notes from Cambridge University; biographical material, financial papers, correspondence, letters of recommendation, and audiocassettes of Blackall's memorial service of 27 January 1990; and German Literature Department files.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Blackall, Eric A. (Eric Albert)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Blackall, Eric A. (Eric Albert). Goethe and the novel.
Cornell University. Dept. of German Literature.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
German literature--Study and teaching.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Restricted in part.
Cite As:
Eric A. Blackall Papers, #14-18-2761. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

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
Series VII. Microfilms and audiotapes

CONTAINER LIST

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