Harold T. McCarthy Papers, 1958-1989
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Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Harold T. McCarthy Papers
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McCarthy, Harold T.
Biographical History for: Harold T. McCarthy Papers
Biographical Note Author, English professor, and University of Massachusetts alumnus (class of 1941) Harold T. McCarthy taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1959 and into his retirement in the late 1980s. In addition to his books on Henry James (1968) and the expatriate perspective on the idea of America (1972), he wrote fiction and poetry as well as critical articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Richard Wright.
Acquired from Alice McCarthy, 1990.
Scope and Contents of the Collection Correspondence, typescript manuscripts, poems, travel journals, and class materials including syllabi and lecture notes documenting Harold T. McCarthy's long and active career as an educator and writer, and travel experiences.
The collection is open for research.
Processed by Linda Seidman.
College teachers--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--Sources.
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American literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--Sources.
Voyages and travels.
McCarthy, Harold T.--Archives.
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McCarthy, Harold T.--Travel.
McCarthy, Harold T. Expatriate perspective.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Alumni and alumnae --History--Sources.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst--Faculty--History--Sources.
Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
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file
Vita
Correspondence 1967-1969, 1982
Correspondence re: publication of books 1971-1974
The Expatriate Perspective: The Self-Discovery of American Novelists in Europe (typescript)
The Expatriate Perspective: American Novelists and the Idea of America (typescript, photocopied)
Henry James: The Creative Process (published version) 1958
Poems by HTM
Travel journals 1972-1989
Syllabus: English 133 Fall 1983
Syllabus: English 480C Fall 1986
Syllabus: English 272 Fall 1986
Lecture Notes, A-K
Lecture Notes, L-Z