Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection
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The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937), Robert Graves (1895-1985), James Joyce (1882-1941), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), and Ezra Pound (1885-1972), as well as writers who produced work following WWII, such as Aidan Higgins (1927-2015), identified as late modernists or influenced by modernism.
Intellectuals and artists affiliated with parallel movements in other disciplines during the same period, such as modern art, are also found in this collection, as seen in the correspondence of Herbert Read (1893-1968) and photography of Gisèle Freund (1908-2000).
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Collection Details
- Items 3049
- Last Updated 2024-07-31
Subcollections (15)
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Works (3033)
1021. Letter from J.R. Ackerley to Herbert Read, [1937?]
- Title:
- Letter from J.R. Ackerley to Herbert Read, [1937?]
- Description:
- Part of a collection of letters to Herbert Read from Joe Randolph "J. R." Ackerley (writer and literary editor of the BBC's weekly magazine The Listener). Ackerley discusses his friend William.
- Subject:
- Gay authors, Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967, Editors, Literature, Modern, Read, Herbert, 1893-1968, Poets, Art historians, Authors, English, Authors, Poets, English, Authors, English--Correspondence, and Modernism (Literature)
- Creator:
- Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967
- Contributor:
- Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937?
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- License:
- Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- HR/JA 1-2
- Extent:
- 2 pages ; 11.2 x 18 cm
- Geographic Coverage:
- England--London
- Coordinates:
- 51.50853, -0.12574
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Handwritten in black ink.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Herbert Read Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- correspondence and letters (correspondence)
- Archival Item Identifier:
- File: 8.1
- Fonds Title:
- Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC100
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collections finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/sir-herbert-edward-read-fonds
- Date Digitized:
- 2021-10
- Technical Note:
- Scanned on Epson Expression 10000XL at 600 DPI TIFF and images cropped & resized for Vault to be under 35MB by PD. Metadata by SC.
1022. Notebook 44 - "Ootsa"
- Title:
- Notebook 44 - "Ootsa"
- Description:
- A piece of prose composed by Else Seel.
- Subject:
- Authors, German, Literature, and Authors
- Creator:
- Seel, Else, 1894-1974
- Language:
- ger
- Date Created:
- 1937
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- License:
- Contact UVic Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- ELS 3/3/12-16
- Extent:
- 10 pages ; 21.5 x 16.5 cm
- Geographic Coverage:
- British Columbia--Wistaria and British Columbia--Ootsa Lake
- Coordinates:
- 53.79977, -126.05327 and 53.84977, -126.27
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Five sheets torn from a notebook, written on double sided, hand written in ink.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Else Lübcke Seel Digital Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- drafts (documents) and short stories
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1978-001; File: 1.16
- Fonds Title:
- Else Lübcke Seel fonds
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC111
- Is_referenced_by:
- Archival Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/else-lubcke-seel-fonds
- Date Digitized:
- 2023-02
- Technical Note:
- Scanned on Plustek OpticBook A300 at 600 dpi TIFF by PD. Metadata by KD.
1023. Paul Valery, Georges Duhamel and Marcel Buteron (specialist of Stendhal) in the hall of the institute - 1937
- Title:
- Paul Valery, Georges Duhamel and Marcel Buteron (specialist of Stendhal) in the hall of the institute - 1937
- Description:
- Part of a series of photographs taken by Gisele Freund relating to the book "James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years".
- Subject:
- Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945, Bouteron, Marcel, 1877-1962, Duhamel, Georges, 1884-1966, and Authors
- Creator:
- Freund, Gisèle
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- These images are provided for research use only and are not for download. and These images are provided under agreement by Estate of Gisele Freund/IMEC Images (L'Institut Memoires de l'edition contemporaine, Paris) and cannot be reproduced or copied without their permission. To purchase copies of these photographs for publication, contact: imecimages-icono@imec-archives.com or Tel. 02 31 29 37 44. A scale of reproduction fees applies for commercial publication or internet broadcast. Details on request. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
- Extent:
- 1 photograph (black and white) ; 30 x 20 cm
- Alternative Title:
- Paul Valery, Georges Duhamel and Marcel Buteron (specialist of Stendhal) in the hall of the institute - 1937 #19
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Gisele Freund Photographs of James Joyce in Paris
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- black-and-white photographs and photographs
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Series: 1997-039 and Item: 1.4.22
- Fonds Title:
- Gisele Freund fonds
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC043
- Is_referenced_by:
- Finding aid for Special Collections fonds: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/gisele-freund-fonds
- Date Digitized:
- 2010-06
- Technical Note:
- 600 dpi 24 colour TIFF. Scanned and edited by JF. Metadata by GF, JF, and KD.
1024. Thornton Wilder - 1937
- Title:
- Thornton Wilder - 1937
- Description:
- Part of a series of photographs taken by Gisele Freund relating to the book "James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years".
- Subject:
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Creator:
- Freund, Gisèle
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- These images are provided under agreement by Estate of Gisele Freund/IMEC Images (L'Institut Memoires de l'edition contemporaine, Paris) and cannot be reproduced or copied without their permission. To purchase copies of these photographs for publication, contact: imecimages-icono@imec-archives.com or Tel. 02 31 29 37 44. A scale of reproduction fees applies for commercial publication or internet broadcast. Details on request. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action. and These images are provided for research use only and are not for download.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
- Extent:
- 1 photograph (black and white) ; 30 x 21 cm
- Alternative Title:
- Thornton Wilder - 1937 #36
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Gisele Freund Photographs of James Joyce in Paris
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- photographs and black-and-white photographs
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Item: 1.5.25 and Series: 1997-039
- Fonds Title:
- Gisele Freund fonds
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC043
- Is_referenced_by:
- Finding aid for Special Collections fonds: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/gisele-freund-fonds
- Date Digitized:
- 2010-06
- Technical Note:
- 600 dpi 24 colour TIFF. Scanned and edited by JF. Metadata by GF, JF, and KD.
1025. [Rupert and Gloria Seel in their oat and potato field]
- Title:
- [Rupert and Gloria Seel in their oat and potato field]
- Description:
- Else Seel's children, Gloria and Rupert, standing at the edge of long grass with rows potato plants in front of them.
- Subject:
- Seel, Else, 1894-1974, Seel, Rupert, 1928-2017, Authors, Seel, Gloria, Families, Frontier and pioneer life, Authors, German, and Agriculture
- Contributor:
- Seel, Else, 1894-1974
- Language:
- ger and eng
- Date Created:
- 1937
- Rights Statement:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- License:
- Contact UVic Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
- Identifier:
- ELS 9/5/9
- Extent:
- 1 photograph ; 5 x 6 cm
- Geographic Coverage:
- British Columbia--Wistaria
- Coordinates:
- 53.84977, -126.27
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Else Lübcke Seel Digital Collection
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- black-and-white photographs and photographs
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1978-001; File: 3.32 (Wistaria, and trip to Europe, 1930-1939)
- Fonds Title:
- Else Lübcke Seel fonds
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC111
- Is_referenced_by:
- Archival Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/else-lubcke-seel-fonds
- Date Digitized:
- 2023-03
- Transcript:
- Rupert n Gloria Seel unser hafer kartoffel feld 1937
- Technical Note:
- Scanned on OpticBook book edge scanners at 600DPI tiff by PD. Metadata by KD.
1026. Jan 2 1937
- Title:
- Jan 2 1937
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-02
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-684
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-01-02.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 2 1937 Laura worked till 4.30: some 16,000 words now. Mary a bit better. I started a throat and kept sucking things. Sherrick Mary & James to lunch at Canuto's. * Laura finished scenario at 4.30. The car fetched it at 4.45. I went to Belleville as usual, with Russian salad & clotted cream. Went to bed while Karl Maisie & Laura went to Green Pastures . Sherrick rang up: would send flowers. Peggy would like to know about Jenny . I said: “refer her to me.” Read a bad novel by Day Lewis, alias Nicholas Blake. Thou Shell of Death.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1027. Jan 3, Sunday.
- Title:
- Jan 3, Sunday.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-03
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-685
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-01-03.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 3, Sunday. Flu, mild but headachy with shivers. Orange juice, aconite, sweatings. But got L's & Mary's breakfast. (In afternoon Laura, Karl, James, Mary, Norman, Alan, Harry, Alix, Dorothy, Ward went to B.B.C. to hear a poem of James broadcast to the Empire. Then on to Café Royal where Laura had a memorable pineapple ice.) Bad night.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1028. Jan 4 Monday. Sam's birthday
- Title:
- Jan 4 Monday. Sam's birthday
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-04
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-686
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-01-04.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 4 Monday. Sam's birthday (German intervention in Spain getting more sinister. Talk of European war's imminence.) Feeling a bit better. Charles' extraordinary truculent phone-call & Peggy's sympathetic one. Nancy, who came up with Sam to aurist, told him off. Later he rang me up. I gave him a chance to apologise which he did not take so I rang off. Laura went to Dr. Wright's and with Nancy to Belleville, bringing Jenny's Follow the Sun bean. Read a little of Alan's novel. Sam stayed the night, Nancy at Betty Colquhour's. Dr. Wright's phone-call to N.N., Laura & Maisie also present: to say that Dr. Green-Armitage would take charge.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1029. Jan 5 Tuesday
- Title:
- Jan 5 Tuesday
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Authors, English and Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-05
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-687
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-01-05.html and Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 5 Tuesday Got up, dressed, got 4 breakfasts. Sam went off after visit to aurist and hearing bird noises for first time & for first time carrying on a conversation with Nancy across the room. In 2 years time his ears should be stimulated to be able to act for themselves. Lunch with N.N. at Josef. Too wobbly & appetiteless to make this a pleasure for either. N. went to Belleville. I went to bed only after supper (Alan & Karl) Laura such a bad cough that she consented to go to bed at 6. Read Kafka's Castle . Flu at Denham & everywhere. Everything tastes odd & rather nasty. Could not sleep with semi-aches and angry thoughts of Charles.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.
1030. Jan 6th Jenny's Birthday.
- Title:
- Jan 6th Jenny's Birthday.
- Description:
- Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- Subject:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 and Authors, English
- Creator:
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-06
- Rights Statement:
- In Copyright
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Extent:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- diaries
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-688
- Fonds Title:
- Robert Graves collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC050
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection and Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-01-06.html
- Date Digitized:
- 2002-07-19
- Transcript:
- Jan 6th Jenny's Birthday. Not so well today: odd aches & pains & a hard cough. No appetite. But went to Belleville and, because Laura not well enough to leave house, and wished J. a happy birthday, with a prospect of soon changing her address. The L.A. had been talking foolishly to her about hostels. Rest of day checking 2nd proofs of A Trojan Ending . Alan worked a little with Laura who is extremely sub. M me Balleydier sent bottle covers & a red-flannel cover for the pin-pillow I bought at Selfridge's for Jens Jensens' pins. I put the pins in.
- Technical Note:
- 300 dpi TIFF. Migration metadata by MT.