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Series I consists of manuscripts and book related material, including illustrations, book jackets and covers, reviews, editorial files, radio plays, stage plays, page proofs, and galleys (Boxes 1-26 and Oversize boxes 1, 3). Series II consists of reader mail from fans (Boxes 27-43).","Series III contains the professional correspondence and papers of Jan Karon concerning the publication of her books, including files with publishers, arrangements and publicity for public appearances, press clippings, and interviews (Boxes 44-59, oversize folder 17 and oversize boxes 1 and 3).","Series IV consists of personal and family papers and is further separated into two subseries,subseries A: personal and family correspondence (Boxes 59-83), including greeting cards and invitations, with frequent correspondents having an individual folder and subseries B: personal papers of Jan Karon, including calendar diaries, journals, personal notes, and related material (Boxes 84-86 and Oversize box 3).","Series V includes materials relating to her advertising career, including the North Carolina tourism campaign (Boxes 87-90 and Oversize box 1).","Series VI contains topical files, including organizations, newsletters, travel files, Mitford general files, and research files Boxes 90-100).","Series VII consists of records about the purchase and restoration of her historic home \"Esmont\" in Ablemarle County, Virginia, including architectural drawings in Subseries A (Oversize folders 1-16 and Oversize boxes 2-3) and papers and photographs in Subseries B (Boxes 101-113).","Series VIII comprises the last series and consists of artifacts, miscellany, audiovisual and born-digital material (Boxes 114-120). This series is arranged in four subseries: Subseries A: Artifacts, chiefly concerning the Second International Mitford Homecoming; Subseries B: Albums and Volumes;Subseries C: Books Influential in the Life of Jan Karon; and Subseries D: Audiovisual and Born Digital Material.","Jan Karon was born on March 14, 1937 in Lenoir, North Carolina, to Robert Cecil Wilson (1914-1977) and Wanda Lee Wilson (1921- ) and was named Janice Meredith after the title of a popular novel. She and her younger sister, Brenda, lived as children with her grandparents, Monroe Ivy Cloer and Fannie Bush Cloer, on their farm outside Hudson, North Carolina. Both sisters later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to join their mother who had married Toby Setzer, the owner of a hosiery knitting business.","At fourteen, Karon married Robert Bryan Freeland (1932-1995) in Charlotte and had one daughter, Candace Rae Freeland, in 1952. Her advertising career began at the age of eighteen, at Walter J. Klein Company, one of the first advertising agencies in the region.","Karon's marriage to Robert Freeland ended in divorce and in her early twenties, Karon married a Duke Power chemist, Bill Orth, and became active in the Charlotte Little Theater, the Mint Museum Drama Guild, and in local social and political issues. She was one of four white women who marched in an early civil rights protest, led by the Reverend Sydney Freeman, along Charlotte's North Tyron Street.","During the late sixties, she and Orth divorced. Karon then married Arthur Karon, a clothing salesman who moved the family to Berkeley, California, where they lived for three years.","After their marriage ended, Karon returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, and begun working again in advertising. Her dismissal from a Charlotte TV production company in 1982 precipitated what she called the 'proverbial dark night of the soul.' Karon returned to the faith taught her as a child by her grandmother. She began attending Charlotte's interdenominational Calvary Church, and worked as a free-lance copywriter until her move to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1983, where she joined McKinney and Silver, an internationally renowned advertising firm.","She became an award- winning creative vice-president at McKinney, working on cruise line and airline accounts. There she won, with art director Michael Winslow, the coveted Steven E. Kelly Award, the print advertising equivalent of the Academy Award. Semi-finalists included British Airways, Harley-Davidson, and Waterford Crystal.","Her daughter, Candace Freeland, pursued photojournalism, winning numerous awards with the \"Miami Herald\", the \"Charlotte Observer\", and a stint in Central America for the \"U.S. News and World Report\".","In order to pursue her dream of writing a novel, Karon left her advertising career and, at age fifty, bought a house in the small mountain town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, where she supported  her dream with freelance advertising work.","Soon, she approached the editor of \"The Blowing Rocket\" with a couple of chapters featuring an Episcopal priest named Tim Kavanagh, which he urged her to run in \"The Blowing Rocket\". The ensuing two years of writing  the priest's story for \"The Blowing Rocket\" resulted in her first novel,  \"At Home in Mitford\", published in paper by a small publishing house in the Midwest. Twenty years after its initial release in paper, the novel appeared in its 85th printing, in a new, 20th anniversary hardcover edition, from Penguin-Random House, the world's largest trade publisher.","The second and third Mitford novels, \"A Light in the Window\" and \"These High Green Hills\", were published by the same house, with limited marketing and distribution. Karon took the promotion of her books into her own hands, cold-selling them to bookstores and befriending bookstore owners. In Raleigh, bookseller Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books, was given a copy of \"At Home in Mitford\" by Mary Richardson, Karon's Raleigh neighbor and friend. Olson admired the work and in 1996 introduced Karon to literary agent Liz Darhansoff. Darhansoff showed the  Karon books to Carolyn Carlson at Penguin, and a long and fruitful relationship began. At this writing (2016), Karon has published twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction,  with sales estimated at more than 40 million, not including foreign sales in nineteen countries. Karon is currently published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin-Random House; her editor is Christine Pepe.","Jan Karon has won much recognition for her work. Among these are three nominations by the American Booksellers Association of \"At Home in Mitford\" for Best Book of the Year for three consecutive years (1996-1998) – a one-time-only occurrence in the Association's history to date.","In 2013, \"Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good\", which spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was given the Library of Virginia's Best Fiction of the Year award. In 2015, Karon received The Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2016, \"Come Rain or Come Shine\" debuting at #1 on the \"New York Times\" list, was the recipient of the 2016 Christy Award. A further recognition is the designation of Jan Karon as a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.  For more information about honors and awards, see box 44 of this collection.","For more information about Jan Karon and her books, see the publicity – press files in boxes 55-56 of this collection, a long article in \"The Charlotte Observer\", August 14, 2005, her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JanKaron/ and website http://www.mitfordbooks.com/ , as well as her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karon","There are two hard drives in this collection that are currently unavailable.","Please contact Special Collections via our online form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request/, to request access.  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Series II consists of reader mail from fans (Boxes 27-43).","Series III contains the professional correspondence and papers of Jan Karon concerning the publication of her books, including files with publishers, arrangements and publicity for public appearances, press clippings, and interviews (Boxes 44-59, oversize folder 17 and oversize boxes 1 and 3).","Series IV consists of personal and family papers and is further separated into two subseries,subseries A: personal and family correspondence (Boxes 59-83), including greeting cards and invitations, with frequent correspondents having an individual folder and subseries B: personal papers of Jan Karon, including calendar diaries, journals, personal notes, and related material (Boxes 84-86 and Oversize box 3).","Series V includes materials relating to her advertising career, including the North Carolina tourism campaign (Boxes 87-90 and Oversize box 1).","Series VI contains topical files, including organizations, newsletters, travel files, Mitford general files, and research files Boxes 90-100).","Series VII consists of records about the purchase and restoration of her historic home \"Esmont\" in Ablemarle County, Virginia, including architectural drawings in Subseries A (Oversize folders 1-16 and Oversize boxes 2-3) and papers and photographs in Subseries B (Boxes 101-113).","Series VIII comprises the last series and consists of artifacts, miscellany, audiovisual and born-digital material (Boxes 114-120). 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Her dismissal from a Charlotte TV production company in 1982 precipitated what she called the 'proverbial dark night of the soul.' Karon returned to the faith taught her as a child by her grandmother. She began attending Charlotte's interdenominational Calvary Church, and worked as a free-lance copywriter until her move to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1983, where she joined McKinney and Silver, an internationally renowned advertising firm. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe became an award- winning creative vice-president at McKinney, working on cruise line and airline accounts. There she won, with art director Michael Winslow, the coveted Steven E. Kelly Award, the print advertising equivalent of the Academy Award. 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The ensuing two years of writing  the priest's story for \u003ctitle\u003e\"The Blowing Rocket\"\u003c/title\u003e resulted in her first novel,  \u003ctitle\u003e\"At Home in Mitford\"\u003c/title\u003e, published in paper by a small publishing house in the Midwest. Twenty years after its initial release in paper, the novel appeared in its 85th printing, in a new, 20th anniversary hardcover edition, from Penguin-Random House, the world's largest trade publisher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second and third Mitford novels, \u003ctitle\u003e\"A Light in the Window\"\u003c/title\u003e and \u003ctitle\u003e\"These High Green Hills\"\u003c/title\u003e, were published by the same house, with limited marketing and distribution. Karon took the promotion of her books into her own hands, cold-selling them to bookstores and befriending bookstore owners. In Raleigh, bookseller Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books, was given a copy of \u003ctitle\u003e\"At Home in Mitford\"\u003c/title\u003e by Mary Richardson, Karon's Raleigh neighbor and friend. Olson admired the work and in 1996 introduced Karon to literary agent Liz Darhansoff. Darhansoff showed the  Karon books to Carolyn Carlson at Penguin, and a long and fruitful relationship began. At this writing (2016), Karon has published twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction,  with sales estimated at more than 40 million, not including foreign sales in nineteen countries. Karon is currently published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin-Random House; her editor is Christine Pepe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJan Karon has won much recognition for her work. Among these are three nominations by the American Booksellers Association of \u003ctitle\u003e\"At Home in Mitford\"\u003c/title\u003e for Best Book of the Year for three consecutive years (1996-1998) – a one-time-only occurrence in the Association's history to date.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, \u003ctitle\u003e\"Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good\"\u003c/title\u003e, which spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was given the Library of Virginia's Best Fiction of the Year award. In 2015, Karon received The Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2016, \u003ctitle\u003e\"Come Rain or Come Shine\"\u003c/title\u003e debuting at #1 on the \u003ctitle\u003e\"New York Times\"\u003c/title\u003e list, was the recipient of the 2016 Christy Award. A further recognition is the designation of Jan Karon as a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.  For more information about honors and awards, see box 44 of this collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor more information about Jan Karon and her books, see the publicity – press files in boxes 55-56 of this collection, a long article in \u003ctitle\u003e\"The Charlotte Observer\"\u003c/title\u003e, August 14, 2005, her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JanKaron/ and website http://www.mitfordbooks.com/ , as well as her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karon\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Jan Karon was born on March 14, 1937 in Lenoir, North Carolina, to Robert Cecil Wilson (1914-1977) and Wanda Lee Wilson (1921- ) and was named Janice Meredith after the title of a popular novel. She and her younger sister, Brenda, lived as children with her grandparents, Monroe Ivy Cloer and Fannie Bush Cloer, on their farm outside Hudson, North Carolina. Both sisters later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to join their mother who had married Toby Setzer, the owner of a hosiery knitting business.","At fourteen, Karon married Robert Bryan Freeland (1932-1995) in Charlotte and had one daughter, Candace Rae Freeland, in 1952. Her advertising career began at the age of eighteen, at Walter J. Klein Company, one of the first advertising agencies in the region.","Karon's marriage to Robert Freeland ended in divorce and in her early twenties, Karon married a Duke Power chemist, Bill Orth, and became active in the Charlotte Little Theater, the Mint Museum Drama Guild, and in local social and political issues. She was one of four white women who marched in an early civil rights protest, led by the Reverend Sydney Freeman, along Charlotte's North Tyron Street.","During the late sixties, she and Orth divorced. Karon then married Arthur Karon, a clothing salesman who moved the family to Berkeley, California, where they lived for three years.","After their marriage ended, Karon returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, and begun working again in advertising. Her dismissal from a Charlotte TV production company in 1982 precipitated what she called the 'proverbial dark night of the soul.' Karon returned to the faith taught her as a child by her grandmother. She began attending Charlotte's interdenominational Calvary Church, and worked as a free-lance copywriter until her move to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1983, where she joined McKinney and Silver, an internationally renowned advertising firm.","She became an award- winning creative vice-president at McKinney, working on cruise line and airline accounts. There she won, with art director Michael Winslow, the coveted Steven E. Kelly Award, the print advertising equivalent of the Academy Award. Semi-finalists included British Airways, Harley-Davidson, and Waterford Crystal.","Her daughter, Candace Freeland, pursued photojournalism, winning numerous awards with the \"Miami Herald\", the \"Charlotte Observer\", and a stint in Central America for the \"U.S. News and World Report\".","In order to pursue her dream of writing a novel, Karon left her advertising career and, at age fifty, bought a house in the small mountain town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, where she supported  her dream with freelance advertising work.","Soon, she approached the editor of \"The Blowing Rocket\" with a couple of chapters featuring an Episcopal priest named Tim Kavanagh, which he urged her to run in \"The Blowing Rocket\". The ensuing two years of writing  the priest's story for \"The Blowing Rocket\" resulted in her first novel,  \"At Home in Mitford\", published in paper by a small publishing house in the Midwest. Twenty years after its initial release in paper, the novel appeared in its 85th printing, in a new, 20th anniversary hardcover edition, from Penguin-Random House, the world's largest trade publisher.","The second and third Mitford novels, \"A Light in the Window\" and \"These High Green Hills\", were published by the same house, with limited marketing and distribution. Karon took the promotion of her books into her own hands, cold-selling them to bookstores and befriending bookstore owners. In Raleigh, bookseller Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books, was given a copy of \"At Home in Mitford\" by Mary Richardson, Karon's Raleigh neighbor and friend. Olson admired the work and in 1996 introduced Karon to literary agent Liz Darhansoff. Darhansoff showed the  Karon books to Carolyn Carlson at Penguin, and a long and fruitful relationship began. At this writing (2016), Karon has published twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction,  with sales estimated at more than 40 million, not including foreign sales in nineteen countries. Karon is currently published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin-Random House; her editor is Christine Pepe.","Jan Karon has won much recognition for her work. Among these are three nominations by the American Booksellers Association of \"At Home in Mitford\" for Best Book of the Year for three consecutive years (1996-1998) – a one-time-only occurrence in the Association's history to date.","In 2013, \"Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good\", which spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was given the Library of Virginia's Best Fiction of the Year award. In 2015, Karon received The Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2016, \"Come Rain or Come Shine\" debuting at #1 on the \"New York Times\" list, was the recipient of the 2016 Christy Award. A further recognition is the designation of Jan Karon as a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.  For more information about honors and awards, see box 44 of this collection.","For more information about Jan Karon and her books, see the publicity – press files in boxes 55-56 of this collection, a long article in \"The Charlotte Observer\", August 14, 2005, her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JanKaron/ and website http://www.mitfordbooks.com/ , as well as her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karon"],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two hard drives in this collection that are currently unavailable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease contact Special Collections via our online form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request/, to request access.  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The bulk of the cards present in this collection span the holiday seasons of 2020 and 2021.","In 2021, Karon founded The Mitford Museum in her former elementary school in Hudson, North Carolina. A number of the greeting cards and letters included in this collection discuss the formation of this museum and its collections as well as an opening speech given by Jan Karon, invitations to parties, author visits, and lectures.","Also included are condolence cards to Karon on the death of her daughter, Candance Freeland, in 2021.","In addition to the greeting cards, the collection includes a sketchbook with drawings of flowers and places dated 1975, personal planning calendars for 2020 and 2021, recipe notebooks, photographs of gatherings from the 1980s and 1990s, magazine features of Jan Karon, \"Sanctuary of Beauty,\" an obituary for Candace Freeland and Jan Karon's step-father Barry Setzer, a poster highlighting the history of Esmont, which is a 100-acre estate in Albemarle County owned and restored by Karon, and a personal and beautifully illustrated book titled \"Donna: Life, Art, Garden, and Home\" about Donna Ernest.","Box ViU2022-0119_001 contains correspondence from 2020 to 2021\nBox ViU2022-0119_002 contains correspondence from 2020 to 2022, notebooks, photographs, planners, sketchbooks and publications\nOversize Folder ViU2022-0119_001 contains the poster of Esmont"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Jan Karon papers, 1918/2018, bulk 1964/2018"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Jan Karon papers, 1918/2018, bulk 1964/2018"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1975/2022"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1975-2022"],"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":1223,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Jan Karon papers, 1918/2018, bulk 1964/2018"],"extent_ssm":["2 Cubic Feet"],"extent_tesim":["2 Cubic Feet"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":3,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["This collection is open for research use."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Correspondence","photographs"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Correspondence","photographs"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was a gift from Jan Karon to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 23 February 2022."],"date_range_isim":[1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research use.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research use."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 16077, Jan Karon papers addition 6, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_heading_ssm":["Preferred Citation"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 16077, Jan Karon papers addition 6, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis addition to the Jan Karon papers (MSS 16077)  primarily contains greeting cards and letters sent to the American novelist Jan Karon of Charlottesville, Virginia. 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A number of the greeting cards and letters included in this collection discuss the formation of this museum and its collections as well as an opening speech given by Jan Karon, invitations to parties, author visits, and lectures.","Also included are condolence cards to Karon on the death of her daughter, Candance Freeland, in 2021.","In addition to the greeting cards, the collection includes a sketchbook with drawings of flowers and places dated 1975, personal planning calendars for 2020 and 2021, recipe notebooks, photographs of gatherings from the 1980s and 1990s, magazine features of Jan Karon, \"Sanctuary of Beauty,\" an obituary for Candace Freeland and Jan Karon's step-father Barry Setzer, a poster highlighting the history of Esmont, which is a 100-acre estate in Albemarle County owned and restored by Karon, and a personal and beautifully illustrated book titled \"Donna: Life, Art, Garden, and Home\" about Donna Ernest.","Box ViU2022-0119_001 contains correspondence from 2020 to 2021\nBox ViU2022-0119_002 contains correspondence from 2020 to 2022, notebooks, photographs, planners, sketchbooks and publications\nOversize Folder ViU2022-0119_001 contains the poster of Esmont"],"_nest_path_":"/components#10","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:40:48.019Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_177","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_3_resources_177","_root_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_177","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_177","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_3_resources_177.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/133789","title_filing_ssi":"Karon, Jan, papers","title_ssm":["Jan Karon papers"],"title_tesim":["Jan Karon papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1918-2018","1964-2018"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1918-2018"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1964-2018"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1918/2018, bulk 1964/2018"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Jan Karon papers, 1918/2018, bulk 1964/2018"],"text":["Jan Karon papers, 1918/2018, bulk 1964/2018","MSS 16077","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/177","Esmont (Albemarle County, Va. : Dwelling)","Mitford (N.C. : Imaginary place)--Fiction","Authors and publishers","Novelists, American","Advertising","This collection is open for research use.","The Jan Karon papers are organized into eight series. Series I consists of manuscripts and book related material, including illustrations, book jackets and covers, reviews, editorial files, radio plays, stage plays, page proofs, and galleys (Boxes 1-26 and Oversize boxes 1, 3). Series II consists of reader mail from fans (Boxes 27-43).","Series III contains the professional correspondence and papers of Jan Karon concerning the publication of her books, including files with publishers, arrangements and publicity for public appearances, press clippings, and interviews (Boxes 44-59, oversize folder 17 and oversize boxes 1 and 3).","Series IV consists of personal and family papers and is further separated into two subseries,subseries A: personal and family correspondence (Boxes 59-83), including greeting cards and invitations, with frequent correspondents having an individual folder and subseries B: personal papers of Jan Karon, including calendar diaries, journals, personal notes, and related material (Boxes 84-86 and Oversize box 3).","Series V includes materials relating to her advertising career, including the North Carolina tourism campaign (Boxes 87-90 and Oversize box 1).","Series VI contains topical files, including organizations, newsletters, travel files, Mitford general files, and research files Boxes 90-100).","Series VII consists of records about the purchase and restoration of her historic home \"Esmont\" in Ablemarle County, Virginia, including architectural drawings in Subseries A (Oversize folders 1-16 and Oversize boxes 2-3) and papers and photographs in Subseries B (Boxes 101-113).","Series VIII comprises the last series and consists of artifacts, miscellany, audiovisual and born-digital material (Boxes 114-120). This series is arranged in four subseries: Subseries A: Artifacts, chiefly concerning the Second International Mitford Homecoming; Subseries B: Albums and Volumes;Subseries C: Books Influential in the Life of Jan Karon; and Subseries D: Audiovisual and Born Digital Material.","Jan Karon was born on March 14, 1937 in Lenoir, North Carolina, to Robert Cecil Wilson (1914-1977) and Wanda Lee Wilson (1921- ) and was named Janice Meredith after the title of a popular novel. She and her younger sister, Brenda, lived as children with her grandparents, Monroe Ivy Cloer and Fannie Bush Cloer, on their farm outside Hudson, North Carolina. Both sisters later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to join their mother who had married Toby Setzer, the owner of a hosiery knitting business.","At fourteen, Karon married Robert Bryan Freeland (1932-1995) in Charlotte and had one daughter, Candace Rae Freeland, in 1952. Her advertising career began at the age of eighteen, at Walter J. Klein Company, one of the first advertising agencies in the region.","Karon's marriage to Robert Freeland ended in divorce and in her early twenties, Karon married a Duke Power chemist, Bill Orth, and became active in the Charlotte Little Theater, the Mint Museum Drama Guild, and in local social and political issues. She was one of four white women who marched in an early civil rights protest, led by the Reverend Sydney Freeman, along Charlotte's North Tyron Street.","During the late sixties, she and Orth divorced. Karon then married Arthur Karon, a clothing salesman who moved the family to Berkeley, California, where they lived for three years.","After their marriage ended, Karon returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, and begun working again in advertising. Her dismissal from a Charlotte TV production company in 1982 precipitated what she called the 'proverbial dark night of the soul.' Karon returned to the faith taught her as a child by her grandmother. She began attending Charlotte's interdenominational Calvary Church, and worked as a free-lance copywriter until her move to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1983, where she joined McKinney and Silver, an internationally renowned advertising firm.","She became an award- winning creative vice-president at McKinney, working on cruise line and airline accounts. There she won, with art director Michael Winslow, the coveted Steven E. Kelly Award, the print advertising equivalent of the Academy Award. Semi-finalists included British Airways, Harley-Davidson, and Waterford Crystal.","Her daughter, Candace Freeland, pursued photojournalism, winning numerous awards with the \"Miami Herald\", the \"Charlotte Observer\", and a stint in Central America for the \"U.S. News and World Report\".","In order to pursue her dream of writing a novel, Karon left her advertising career and, at age fifty, bought a house in the small mountain town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, where she supported  her dream with freelance advertising work.","Soon, she approached the editor of \"The Blowing Rocket\" with a couple of chapters featuring an Episcopal priest named Tim Kavanagh, which he urged her to run in \"The Blowing Rocket\". The ensuing two years of writing  the priest's story for \"The Blowing Rocket\" resulted in her first novel,  \"At Home in Mitford\", published in paper by a small publishing house in the Midwest. Twenty years after its initial release in paper, the novel appeared in its 85th printing, in a new, 20th anniversary hardcover edition, from Penguin-Random House, the world's largest trade publisher.","The second and third Mitford novels, \"A Light in the Window\" and \"These High Green Hills\", were published by the same house, with limited marketing and distribution. Karon took the promotion of her books into her own hands, cold-selling them to bookstores and befriending bookstore owners. In Raleigh, bookseller Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books, was given a copy of \"At Home in Mitford\" by Mary Richardson, Karon's Raleigh neighbor and friend. Olson admired the work and in 1996 introduced Karon to literary agent Liz Darhansoff. Darhansoff showed the  Karon books to Carolyn Carlson at Penguin, and a long and fruitful relationship began. At this writing (2016), Karon has published twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction,  with sales estimated at more than 40 million, not including foreign sales in nineteen countries. Karon is currently published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin-Random House; her editor is Christine Pepe.","Jan Karon has won much recognition for her work. Among these are three nominations by the American Booksellers Association of \"At Home in Mitford\" for Best Book of the Year for three consecutive years (1996-1998) – a one-time-only occurrence in the Association's history to date.","In 2013, \"Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good\", which spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was given the Library of Virginia's Best Fiction of the Year award. In 2015, Karon received The Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2016, \"Come Rain or Come Shine\" debuting at #1 on the \"New York Times\" list, was the recipient of the 2016 Christy Award. A further recognition is the designation of Jan Karon as a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.  For more information about honors and awards, see box 44 of this collection.","For more information about Jan Karon and her books, see the publicity – press files in boxes 55-56 of this collection, a long article in \"The Charlotte Observer\", August 14, 2005, her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JanKaron/ and website http://www.mitfordbooks.com/ , as well as her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karon","There are two hard drives in this collection that are currently unavailable.","Please contact Special Collections via our online form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request/, to request access.  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Series I consists of manuscripts and book related material, including illustrations, book jackets and covers, reviews, editorial files, radio plays, stage plays, page proofs, and galleys (Boxes 1-26 and Oversize boxes 1, 3). 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Series II consists of reader mail from fans (Boxes 27-43).","Series III contains the professional correspondence and papers of Jan Karon concerning the publication of her books, including files with publishers, arrangements and publicity for public appearances, press clippings, and interviews (Boxes 44-59, oversize folder 17 and oversize boxes 1 and 3).","Series IV consists of personal and family papers and is further separated into two subseries,subseries A: personal and family correspondence (Boxes 59-83), including greeting cards and invitations, with frequent correspondents having an individual folder and subseries B: personal papers of Jan Karon, including calendar diaries, journals, personal notes, and related material (Boxes 84-86 and Oversize box 3).","Series V includes materials relating to her advertising career, including the North Carolina tourism campaign (Boxes 87-90 and Oversize box 1).","Series VI contains topical files, including organizations, newsletters, travel files, Mitford general files, and research files Boxes 90-100).","Series VII consists of records about the purchase and restoration of her historic home \"Esmont\" in Ablemarle County, Virginia, including architectural drawings in Subseries A (Oversize folders 1-16 and Oversize boxes 2-3) and papers and photographs in Subseries B (Boxes 101-113).","Series VIII comprises the last series and consists of artifacts, miscellany, audiovisual and born-digital material (Boxes 114-120). This series is arranged in four subseries: Subseries A: Artifacts, chiefly concerning the Second International Mitford Homecoming; Subseries B: Albums and Volumes;Subseries C: Books Influential in the Life of Jan Karon; and Subseries D: Audiovisual and Born Digital Material."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJan Karon was born on March 14, 1937 in Lenoir, North Carolina, to Robert Cecil Wilson (1914-1977) and Wanda Lee Wilson (1921- ) and was named Janice Meredith after the title of a popular novel. She and her younger sister, Brenda, lived as children with her grandparents, Monroe Ivy Cloer and Fannie Bush Cloer, on their farm outside Hudson, North Carolina. Both sisters later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to join their mother who had married Toby Setzer, the owner of a hosiery knitting business.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt fourteen, Karon married Robert Bryan Freeland (1932-1995) in Charlotte and had one daughter, Candace Rae Freeland, in 1952. 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Her dismissal from a Charlotte TV production company in 1982 precipitated what she called the 'proverbial dark night of the soul.' Karon returned to the faith taught her as a child by her grandmother. She began attending Charlotte's interdenominational Calvary Church, and worked as a free-lance copywriter until her move to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1983, where she joined McKinney and Silver, an internationally renowned advertising firm. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe became an award- winning creative vice-president at McKinney, working on cruise line and airline accounts. There she won, with art director Michael Winslow, the coveted Steven E. Kelly Award, the print advertising equivalent of the Academy Award. 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The ensuing two years of writing  the priest's story for \u003ctitle\u003e\"The Blowing Rocket\"\u003c/title\u003e resulted in her first novel,  \u003ctitle\u003e\"At Home in Mitford\"\u003c/title\u003e, published in paper by a small publishing house in the Midwest. Twenty years after its initial release in paper, the novel appeared in its 85th printing, in a new, 20th anniversary hardcover edition, from Penguin-Random House, the world's largest trade publisher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second and third Mitford novels, \u003ctitle\u003e\"A Light in the Window\"\u003c/title\u003e and \u003ctitle\u003e\"These High Green Hills\"\u003c/title\u003e, were published by the same house, with limited marketing and distribution. Karon took the promotion of her books into her own hands, cold-selling them to bookstores and befriending bookstore owners. In Raleigh, bookseller Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books, was given a copy of \u003ctitle\u003e\"At Home in Mitford\"\u003c/title\u003e by Mary Richardson, Karon's Raleigh neighbor and friend. Olson admired the work and in 1996 introduced Karon to literary agent Liz Darhansoff. Darhansoff showed the  Karon books to Carolyn Carlson at Penguin, and a long and fruitful relationship began. At this writing (2016), Karon has published twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction,  with sales estimated at more than 40 million, not including foreign sales in nineteen countries. Karon is currently published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin-Random House; her editor is Christine Pepe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJan Karon has won much recognition for her work. 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Both sisters later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to join their mother who had married Toby Setzer, the owner of a hosiery knitting business.","At fourteen, Karon married Robert Bryan Freeland (1932-1995) in Charlotte and had one daughter, Candace Rae Freeland, in 1952. Her advertising career began at the age of eighteen, at Walter J. Klein Company, one of the first advertising agencies in the region.","Karon's marriage to Robert Freeland ended in divorce and in her early twenties, Karon married a Duke Power chemist, Bill Orth, and became active in the Charlotte Little Theater, the Mint Museum Drama Guild, and in local social and political issues. She was one of four white women who marched in an early civil rights protest, led by the Reverend Sydney Freeman, along Charlotte's North Tyron Street.","During the late sixties, she and Orth divorced. Karon then married Arthur Karon, a clothing salesman who moved the family to Berkeley, California, where they lived for three years.","After their marriage ended, Karon returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, and begun working again in advertising. Her dismissal from a Charlotte TV production company in 1982 precipitated what she called the 'proverbial dark night of the soul.' Karon returned to the faith taught her as a child by her grandmother. She began attending Charlotte's interdenominational Calvary Church, and worked as a free-lance copywriter until her move to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1983, where she joined McKinney and Silver, an internationally renowned advertising firm.","She became an award- winning creative vice-president at McKinney, working on cruise line and airline accounts. There she won, with art director Michael Winslow, the coveted Steven E. Kelly Award, the print advertising equivalent of the Academy Award. Semi-finalists included British Airways, Harley-Davidson, and Waterford Crystal.","Her daughter, Candace Freeland, pursued photojournalism, winning numerous awards with the \"Miami Herald\", the \"Charlotte Observer\", and a stint in Central America for the \"U.S. News and World Report\".","In order to pursue her dream of writing a novel, Karon left her advertising career and, at age fifty, bought a house in the small mountain town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, where she supported  her dream with freelance advertising work.","Soon, she approached the editor of \"The Blowing Rocket\" with a couple of chapters featuring an Episcopal priest named Tim Kavanagh, which he urged her to run in \"The Blowing Rocket\". The ensuing two years of writing  the priest's story for \"The Blowing Rocket\" resulted in her first novel,  \"At Home in Mitford\", published in paper by a small publishing house in the Midwest. Twenty years after its initial release in paper, the novel appeared in its 85th printing, in a new, 20th anniversary hardcover edition, from Penguin-Random House, the world's largest trade publisher.","The second and third Mitford novels, \"A Light in the Window\" and \"These High Green Hills\", were published by the same house, with limited marketing and distribution. Karon took the promotion of her books into her own hands, cold-selling them to bookstores and befriending bookstore owners. In Raleigh, bookseller Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books, was given a copy of \"At Home in Mitford\" by Mary Richardson, Karon's Raleigh neighbor and friend. Olson admired the work and in 1996 introduced Karon to literary agent Liz Darhansoff. Darhansoff showed the  Karon books to Carolyn Carlson at Penguin, and a long and fruitful relationship began. At this writing (2016), Karon has published twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction,  with sales estimated at more than 40 million, not including foreign sales in nineteen countries. Karon is currently published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin-Random House; her editor is Christine Pepe.","Jan Karon has won much recognition for her work. Among these are three nominations by the American Booksellers Association of \"At Home in Mitford\" for Best Book of the Year for three consecutive years (1996-1998) – a one-time-only occurrence in the Association's history to date.","In 2013, \"Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good\", which spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was given the Library of Virginia's Best Fiction of the Year award. In 2015, Karon received The Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2016, \"Come Rain or Come Shine\" debuting at #1 on the \"New York Times\" list, was the recipient of the 2016 Christy Award. 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Series 1. New Literary History Records (1969-2006) Boxes 1-42. Series 2. Ralph Cohen papers (1948-2015) Boxes 43-130 and Restricted (grades and recommendations) Boxes 138-150. Series 3. Cohen Family Papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-137.  Each series also has subseries.","Series 1, Subseries 1: Ralph Cohen's New Literary History correspondence as an editor and founder of the New Literary History Journal. It includes correspondence with the contributors (scholarly critics) along with their articles for publication. This makes up a substantial part of Series 1. (1969-1997) Boxes 3-33. There is also Ralph Cohen correspondence with other editors from 1984 to 1994 Boxes 1-3. Included is Ralph Cohen's teaching correspondence with his colleagues and students.  The teaching correspondence for the same time is also in Series 2. (It was not combined because the original order kept them separate.)","Series 1, Subseries 2: Ralph Cohen articles about planning the New Literary History Journal, and other print and manuscripts related to the Journal. (1975-2004) Boxes 33-34.","Series 1, Subseries 3: 686 audio cassette recordings of some of the contributors who were prominent scholars on literary theory in the 1990's. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 4 contains over 100 computer files with articles from contributors and prominent scholars of literary theory for the Journal from 1998-2006. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 5: financial records of the New Literary History Journal. (1969-1986) Boxes 34-37.","Series 1, Subseries 6: papers of the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change. (1988-1992) Boxes 37-42.\n  \n(There are no articles or correspondence representing the following issues: Volumes 1-III, Volume IV, Number 1, Volume VIII, Volume IX, Volume X, Volume XV, Volume XVI Number 1, and Number 2, Volume 23, Volume 24 Number 1 and Number 2, Volume 25, and Volume 27. The last issue represented in the paper collection is Volume 28(1997). The Journal issues change to cardinal numbers after Volume 19 and the Journal becomes quarterly after Volume 20 in 1990 so that the papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change could be included.","Series 2 Ralph Cohen papers contain Ralph Cohen's work as a teacher and leader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. (1948-2015)Boxes 49-130; Boxes 138-150 (restricted).","Series 2, Subseries 1: correspondence which is like the Ralph Cohen teaching correspondence in Series 1. There is also correspondence related to many of the organizations that were part of his work. (1971-2015) Boxes 43-49","Series 2, Subseries 2: Classes and Research is a significant part of Series 2 which contains class lecture notes, class materials, readings, conferences, printed articles and journals, manuscripts, and bibliographic research (on index cards). The term research mostly refers to the notes that he made for his lectures or the actual lectures. This subseries is organized loosely by periods in English Literature (Ancient and Medieval Literature \"The Greats\", English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770-1900, British Literature, American Literature 19th and 20th Century, then by literary history, literary change, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. Some of the class information and content may repeat throughout this series because many courses share similar authors and content.  Classes that Dr. Cohen taught in the 1950's can be found in the same folders with the classes that he taught in 2000 since he arranged them by class subject matter. Much of the material is not dated. Included within his course materials are papers that he wrote on similar subjects when he was a student at New York Teachers College in 1948 through 1950. (1948-2011) Boxes 49-130","Series 2, Subseries 3: restricted materials (due to FERPA) such as fellowships, grades, recommendations, and dissertation information. (1972-2013)Boxes 138-150. (Restricted items are mostly arranged by alphabetically or chronologically but they do not follow a consistent pattern in the original order)","Series 3: Family papers of Ralph Cohen. Subseries 1 contains Ralph Cohen's personal papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-132. Subseries 2. Libby Okun Cohen (and family papers) contain materials related to Libby Cohen, as a genealogist, researcher, and award-winning librarian. (1964-2002 and undated) Boxes 133-137.","Ralph Cohen (1917-2016) served as the William J. Kenan, Jr. professor of English (and professor emeritus) at the University of Virginia for an impressive 42 years (1967-2009). Born to Polish immigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey on February 23, 1917, Cohen became one of the most eminent critical thinkers and educators of Twentieth Century America with a career that spanned more than 60 years. (He also taught at the City College of New York (1947-1950), the University of California Los Angeles (1950-1967), and James Madison University (2010-2013). His focus was on 18th-Century British literature, and he was a pioneer in the field of literary theory. He founded and edited the \"New Literary History Journal\", which was the first journal of its kind to combine the study of literature with other disciplines. It won more than six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for its special issues, a unique honor among scholarly journals.  Cohen sought out different points of view from contributors across the globe to create more diverse dialogue in the journal. His extraordinary ability to promote and account for diverse positions on theory at professional conferences was legendary. He also founded and directed the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia (1988-1995). The Center was set up by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to study the concept of change in individuals, and institutions in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It also viewed the changes that develop in cultural, social, and political situations in African, Asian, and other non-western societies. The \"New Literary History\" Journal published articles and activities of the Center. In 2010 Cohen became the Provost's Distinguished Professor at James Madison University where he taught courses on Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Cohen's innovative concept of technology led to the establishment of the Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism at James Madison University. His celebrated transactive classroom strategies frequently attracted colleagues and devoted students to his courses. He taught and mentored many generations of students, preparing them for lives and careers as teachers and scholars. He maintained contact with many of his students and made recommendations supporting their teaching, fellowships, and tenure positions throughout their careers. Cohen was a dedicated teacher who examined the changing concepts and styles found in literature and other disciplines of study. Cohen led his students towards deeper insights into understanding cultural changes for society and increased awareness of their perceptions in professional and daily life. Cohen was the editor and author of many articles and books including, \"The Art of Discrimination\" (1964), \"The Essential David Hume\" (1965), \"The Unfolding of 'The Season\" (1970),\"New Directions in Literary History\" (1974), \"Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics\" (1985), \"The Future of Literary Theory\" (1989), \"Studies in Historical Change\" (1992), \"History and...: Histories Within the Human Sciences\" (1995), and \"Literature and History\". He was well respected as an author and was best known for promoting the work of his colleagues through editing and publishing their articles.","He was married to Libby Okun Cohen for more than 70 years. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11, 1913. Due to persecution, her family emigrated to Vilna (now Vilnius) early in her life. She was a frequent companion in Ralph's classes and at his speaking engagements around the world, intent both on supporting her husband and continuing her own education. She co-wrote the index of Volumes I-X for the \"New Literary History\". She was a librarian at California State College Northridge and created the library at the Tandem Friends School where she was the librarian from 1970 to 1986. Under her inspired and challenging guidance, the multifaceted library generated unprecedented dialogue and quickly became known as \"Tandem's Cultural Center. The Tandem library honored her by naming it the Libby O. Cohen Library. She also helped build the multicultural library at the University's Sundberg International Center. She spoke many languages and partnered with her husband as a promoter of education and multiculturalism.  James Madison University established the Libby Okun Cohen Chair in technological humanism while her husband was teaching there. She was also an author of children stories, an independent genealogy researcher, a project coordinator for an oral history project that interviewed survivors from Nazi Germany, and an intergenerational program L'Dor V'Dor for young students to learn and share in the lives of older individuals.  Ralph and Libby Cohen had two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Cohen who were both born during World War II. Ruth Morris followed in her mother's footsteps by completing a doctorate in Information and Library Science at the University of Michigan, thereby initiating her career as a distinguished librarian. She was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some courses with Ralph Cohen.  Libby Cohen died at age 99 in 2013. Ralph Cohen also died at age 99 in 2016.","Sources:\nhttp://best-hashtags.com/hashtag/teacherappreciation/\nhttps://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-ralph-cohen-professor-who-transformed-literary-criticism-0\nhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/380552/pdf\nhttps://dailyprogress.com/ralph-cohen/article_de380d0a-185c-510e-b74d-3a33511feed3.html\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/469184?seq=1\nhttps://www.jmu.edu/cohencenter/our-people/cohen-ralph.shtml\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/236774952_History_and_Change_An_Interview_with_Ralph_Cohen\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Genre_Theory_and_Historical_Change_Theoretical_Ess?id=0PsmDwAAQBAJ\u0026hl=sw\nhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ralph-Cohen/dp/0813940117\nRalph Cohen, \"Notes for a History\" (from within the collection)\nVideo interview: \nhttps://www.jmu.edu/news/2010/10/18-ralph-cohen.shtml","This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the \"New Literary History\", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial information, audiocassettes of prominent scholars (of literary theory in the 1990's), computer disks with contributor's articles (1998-2006), and information from the Commonwealth Center of Literary and Cultural Change (1988-1995). The Center was founded and directed by Ralph Cohen at the University of Virginia and is represented in a quarterly issue of the New Literary History Journal (starting with Volume 20 in 1990). Some of the correspondence and articles from contributors are not included for some issues. (See Arrangement for details). The last issue of correspondence and articles represented in the paper collection is Volume 28 (1997).","Both the highly regarded New Literary History Journal and the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change reflect Cohen's belief that there is a need to understand multiple disciplines when evaluating literature and human nature. He also felt that it is necessary to nurture a genuine respect for different perspectives of other individuals as a pathway to becoming a better society. Each issue of the New Literary History Journal selects a theme and invites authors to create opposing dialogues. As a strong promoter of multiculturalism and feminism, he included authors from the non-western world, and men and women with varying points of view and different backgrounds. Frequent authors/contributors are George Garrett, Joyce A. Joyce, Ihab Hassan, Toril Moi, Xiaoying Wang, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bleich, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, Helene Cixous, William K. Winsat, Robert Weimann, Jonathan Culler, Martha Nussbaum, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Gerald Graff, Murray Krieger, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Hernstein Smith, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, Wolfgang Iser, Jean Starobinski, Northrup Frye, Geoffrey Hartman, Wolf Lupenies, Eddie Tomarken, Rene Welleck, Marshall McCluhan, Tzvetan Todorov, Terry Eagleton, Brian Stock, Catharine R. Stimpson, Frances Ferguson, Rita Felski, Rey Chow, Cora Diamond, Michael Prince, Winfried Fluck, Sandra Gilbert, Gary Saul Morson, Katherine Neeley, Stanley Fish, James M. Holquist, Keith Moxey, Richard Rorty, Walter Sokel, and many others.","In Series 2 the Ralph Cophen papers reflect his teaching and lecturing from the years 1948 to 2011 on Eighteenth-Century literature and literary theory such as correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, articles, conferences, manuscripts, and printed journals. The content in this part of the collection spans Ancient and Medieval Literature (\"The Greats\"), English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770 to 1900, British Literature, American 19th and 20th Century Literature and literary history, literary change, literary criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. These materials cover a complete and impressive range of literary authors and their works throughout the history of literature including the Bible, ballads and medieval manuscripts, Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Pope, Donne, Blake, Hume, Thomson, Dryden, Milton, Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Austen, Cather, T.S. Eliot, George Elliot, Ellen Glasgow, Emily Dickenson, the Romantics, the Nature Poets, Swift, Olaudah Equiano, James, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more. These lecture notes reveal the scope and wealth of Ralph Cohen's vast knowledge of literature and offer an opportunity for others to continue learning through his papers.","Of interest are papers written by Ralph Cohen when he was a young college student, and which are included with the papers written by his students on similar subjects. There are also drafts of articles by Ralph Cohen outlining his plans for the New Literary History, and interviews with Ralph Cohen about his teaching. As an editor, Ralph Cohen sought to publish the work of his colleagues, but this collection has some of his original drafts of articles on literary theory. (Series 2: Box 85 and 86)","The collection also includes the personal papers of Ralph Cohen's family including his wife, Libby Okun Cohen and their two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Morris. The Cohen's daughter was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some classes with Ralph Cohen. There are mementos and readings documenting many of the family Seder (Pesach Haggadah).  Libby Cohens' papers show her love of learning; her work in an intergenerational project (L'Dor V'Dor) with students and older generations; a Holocaust Oral History project, independent research in genealogy, and her career as an outstanding librarian.","This collection is open for use except for restricted materials due to FERPA Boxes 138-150.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Ralph Cohen papers and \"New Literary History\" records, 1948/2016"],"collection_ssim":["Ralph Cohen papers and \"New Literary History\" records, 1948/2016"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["RG-24/54/1.151","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource 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(1988-1992) Boxes 37-42.\n  \n(There are no articles or correspondence representing the following issues: Volumes 1-III, Volume IV, Number 1, Volume VIII, Volume IX, Volume X, Volume XV, Volume XVI Number 1, and Number 2, Volume 23, Volume 24 Number 1 and Number 2, Volume 25, and Volume 27. The last issue represented in the paper collection is Volume 28(1997). The Journal issues change to cardinal numbers after Volume 19 and the Journal becomes quarterly after Volume 20 in 1990 so that the papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change could be included.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 Ralph Cohen papers contain Ralph Cohen's work as a teacher and leader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. (1948-2015)Boxes 49-130; Boxes 138-150 (restricted). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2, Subseries 1: correspondence which is like the Ralph Cohen teaching correspondence in Series 1. There is also correspondence related to many of the organizations that were part of his work. (1971-2015) Boxes 43-49 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2, Subseries 2: Classes and Research is a significant part of Series 2 which contains class lecture notes, class materials, readings, conferences, printed articles and journals, manuscripts, and bibliographic research (on index cards). The term research mostly refers to the notes that he made for his lectures or the actual lectures. This subseries is organized loosely by periods in English Literature (Ancient and Medieval Literature \"The Greats\", English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770-1900, British Literature, American Literature 19th and 20th Century, then by literary history, literary change, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. Some of the class information and content may repeat throughout this series because many courses share similar authors and content.  Classes that Dr. Cohen taught in the 1950's can be found in the same folders with the classes that he taught in 2000 since he arranged them by class subject matter. Much of the material is not dated. Included within his course materials are papers that he wrote on similar subjects when he was a student at New York Teachers College in 1948 through 1950. (1948-2011) Boxes 49-130\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2, Subseries 3: restricted materials (due to FERPA) such as fellowships, grades, recommendations, and dissertation information. (1972-2013)Boxes 138-150. (Restricted items are mostly arranged by alphabetically or chronologically but they do not follow a consistent pattern in the original order) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Family papers of Ralph Cohen. Subseries 1 contains Ralph Cohen's personal papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-132. Subseries 2. Libby Okun Cohen (and family papers) contain materials related to Libby Cohen, as a genealogist, researcher, and award-winning librarian. (1964-2002 and undated) Boxes 133-137.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The Ralph Cohen papers, and New Literary History records (1948-2016) are arranged into three series. Series 1. New Literary History Records (1969-2006) Boxes 1-42. Series 2. Ralph Cohen papers (1948-2015) Boxes 43-130 and Restricted (grades and recommendations) Boxes 138-150. Series 3. Cohen Family Papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-137.  Each series also has subseries.","Series 1, Subseries 1: Ralph Cohen's New Literary History correspondence as an editor and founder of the New Literary History Journal. It includes correspondence with the contributors (scholarly critics) along with their articles for publication. This makes up a substantial part of Series 1. (1969-1997) Boxes 3-33. There is also Ralph Cohen correspondence with other editors from 1984 to 1994 Boxes 1-3. Included is Ralph Cohen's teaching correspondence with his colleagues and students.  The teaching correspondence for the same time is also in Series 2. (It was not combined because the original order kept them separate.)","Series 1, Subseries 2: Ralph Cohen articles about planning the New Literary History Journal, and other print and manuscripts related to the Journal. (1975-2004) Boxes 33-34.","Series 1, Subseries 3: 686 audio cassette recordings of some of the contributors who were prominent scholars on literary theory in the 1990's. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 4 contains over 100 computer files with articles from contributors and prominent scholars of literary theory for the Journal from 1998-2006. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 5: financial records of the New Literary History Journal. (1969-1986) Boxes 34-37.","Series 1, Subseries 6: papers of the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change. (1988-1992) Boxes 37-42.\n  \n(There are no articles or correspondence representing the following issues: Volumes 1-III, Volume IV, Number 1, Volume VIII, Volume IX, Volume X, Volume XV, Volume XVI Number 1, and Number 2, Volume 23, Volume 24 Number 1 and Number 2, Volume 25, and Volume 27. The last issue represented in the paper collection is Volume 28(1997). The Journal issues change to cardinal numbers after Volume 19 and the Journal becomes quarterly after Volume 20 in 1990 so that the papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change could be included.","Series 2 Ralph Cohen papers contain Ralph Cohen's work as a teacher and leader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. (1948-2015)Boxes 49-130; Boxes 138-150 (restricted).","Series 2, Subseries 1: correspondence which is like the Ralph Cohen teaching correspondence in Series 1. There is also correspondence related to many of the organizations that were part of his work. (1971-2015) Boxes 43-49","Series 2, Subseries 2: Classes and Research is a significant part of Series 2 which contains class lecture notes, class materials, readings, conferences, printed articles and journals, manuscripts, and bibliographic research (on index cards). The term research mostly refers to the notes that he made for his lectures or the actual lectures. This subseries is organized loosely by periods in English Literature (Ancient and Medieval Literature \"The Greats\", English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770-1900, British Literature, American Literature 19th and 20th Century, then by literary history, literary change, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. Some of the class information and content may repeat throughout this series because many courses share similar authors and content.  Classes that Dr. Cohen taught in the 1950's can be found in the same folders with the classes that he taught in 2000 since he arranged them by class subject matter. Much of the material is not dated. Included within his course materials are papers that he wrote on similar subjects when he was a student at New York Teachers College in 1948 through 1950. (1948-2011) Boxes 49-130","Series 2, Subseries 3: restricted materials (due to FERPA) such as fellowships, grades, recommendations, and dissertation information. (1972-2013)Boxes 138-150. (Restricted items are mostly arranged by alphabetically or chronologically but they do not follow a consistent pattern in the original order)","Series 3: Family papers of Ralph Cohen. Subseries 1 contains Ralph Cohen's personal papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-132. Subseries 2. Libby Okun Cohen (and family papers) contain materials related to Libby Cohen, as a genealogist, researcher, and award-winning librarian. (1964-2002 and undated) Boxes 133-137."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRalph Cohen (1917-2016) served as the William J. Kenan, Jr. professor of English (and professor emeritus) at the University of Virginia for an impressive 42 years (1967-2009). Born to Polish immigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey on February 23, 1917, Cohen became one of the most eminent critical thinkers and educators of Twentieth Century America with a career that spanned more than 60 years. (He also taught at the City College of New York (1947-1950), the University of California Los Angeles (1950-1967), and James Madison University (2010-2013). His focus was on 18th-Century British literature, and he was a pioneer in the field of literary theory. He founded and edited the \"New Literary History Journal\", which was the first journal of its kind to combine the study of literature with other disciplines. It won more than six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for its special issues, a unique honor among scholarly journals.  Cohen sought out different points of view from contributors across the globe to create more diverse dialogue in the journal. His extraordinary ability to promote and account for diverse positions on theory at professional conferences was legendary. He also founded and directed the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia (1988-1995). The Center was set up by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to study the concept of change in individuals, and institutions in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It also viewed the changes that develop in cultural, social, and political situations in African, Asian, and other non-western societies. The \"New Literary History\" Journal published articles and activities of the Center. In 2010 Cohen became the Provost's Distinguished Professor at James Madison University where he taught courses on Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Cohen's innovative concept of technology led to the establishment of the Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism at James Madison University. His celebrated transactive classroom strategies frequently attracted colleagues and devoted students to his courses. He taught and mentored many generations of students, preparing them for lives and careers as teachers and scholars. He maintained contact with many of his students and made recommendations supporting their teaching, fellowships, and tenure positions throughout their careers. Cohen was a dedicated teacher who examined the changing concepts and styles found in literature and other disciplines of study. Cohen led his students towards deeper insights into understanding cultural changes for society and increased awareness of their perceptions in professional and daily life. Cohen was the editor and author of many articles and books including, \"The Art of Discrimination\" (1964), \"The Essential David Hume\" (1965), \"The Unfolding of 'The Season\" (1970),\"New Directions in Literary History\" (1974), \"Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics\" (1985), \"The Future of Literary Theory\" (1989), \"Studies in Historical Change\" (1992), \"History and...: Histories Within the Human Sciences\" (1995), and \"Literature and History\". He was well respected as an author and was best known for promoting the work of his colleagues through editing and publishing their articles. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was married to Libby Okun Cohen for more than 70 years. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11, 1913. Due to persecution, her family emigrated to Vilna (now Vilnius) early in her life. She was a frequent companion in Ralph's classes and at his speaking engagements around the world, intent both on supporting her husband and continuing her own education. She co-wrote the index of Volumes I-X for the \"New Literary History\". She was a librarian at California State College Northridge and created the library at the Tandem Friends School where she was the librarian from 1970 to 1986. Under her inspired and challenging guidance, the multifaceted library generated unprecedented dialogue and quickly became known as \"Tandem's Cultural Center. The Tandem library honored her by naming it the Libby O. Cohen Library. She also helped build the multicultural library at the University's Sundberg International Center. She spoke many languages and partnered with her husband as a promoter of education and multiculturalism.  James Madison University established the Libby Okun Cohen Chair in technological humanism while her husband was teaching there. She was also an author of children stories, an independent genealogy researcher, a project coordinator for an oral history project that interviewed survivors from Nazi Germany, and an intergenerational program L'Dor V'Dor for young students to learn and share in the lives of older individuals.  Ralph and Libby Cohen had two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Cohen who were both born during World War II. Ruth Morris followed in her mother's footsteps by completing a doctorate in Information and Library Science at the University of Michigan, thereby initiating her career as a distinguished librarian. She was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some courses with Ralph Cohen.  Libby Cohen died at age 99 in 2013. Ralph Cohen also died at age 99 in 2016.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSources:\nhttp://best-hashtags.com/hashtag/teacherappreciation/\nhttps://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-ralph-cohen-professor-who-transformed-literary-criticism-0\nhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/380552/pdf\nhttps://dailyprogress.com/ralph-cohen/article_de380d0a-185c-510e-b74d-3a33511feed3.html\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/469184?seq=1\nhttps://www.jmu.edu/cohencenter/our-people/cohen-ralph.shtml\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/236774952_History_and_Change_An_Interview_with_Ralph_Cohen\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Genre_Theory_and_Historical_Change_Theoretical_Ess?id=0PsmDwAAQBAJ\u0026amp;hl=sw\nhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ralph-Cohen/dp/0813940117\nRalph Cohen, \"Notes for a History\" (from within the collection)\nVideo interview: \nhttps://www.jmu.edu/news/2010/10/18-ralph-cohen.shtml\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Ralph Cohen (1917-2016) served as the William J. Kenan, Jr. professor of English (and professor emeritus) at the University of Virginia for an impressive 42 years (1967-2009). Born to Polish immigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey on February 23, 1917, Cohen became one of the most eminent critical thinkers and educators of Twentieth Century America with a career that spanned more than 60 years. (He also taught at the City College of New York (1947-1950), the University of California Los Angeles (1950-1967), and James Madison University (2010-2013). His focus was on 18th-Century British literature, and he was a pioneer in the field of literary theory. He founded and edited the \"New Literary History Journal\", which was the first journal of its kind to combine the study of literature with other disciplines. It won more than six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for its special issues, a unique honor among scholarly journals.  Cohen sought out different points of view from contributors across the globe to create more diverse dialogue in the journal. His extraordinary ability to promote and account for diverse positions on theory at professional conferences was legendary. He also founded and directed the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia (1988-1995). The Center was set up by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to study the concept of change in individuals, and institutions in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It also viewed the changes that develop in cultural, social, and political situations in African, Asian, and other non-western societies. The \"New Literary History\" Journal published articles and activities of the Center. In 2010 Cohen became the Provost's Distinguished Professor at James Madison University where he taught courses on Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Cohen's innovative concept of technology led to the establishment of the Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism at James Madison University. His celebrated transactive classroom strategies frequently attracted colleagues and devoted students to his courses. He taught and mentored many generations of students, preparing them for lives and careers as teachers and scholars. He maintained contact with many of his students and made recommendations supporting their teaching, fellowships, and tenure positions throughout their careers. Cohen was a dedicated teacher who examined the changing concepts and styles found in literature and other disciplines of study. Cohen led his students towards deeper insights into understanding cultural changes for society and increased awareness of their perceptions in professional and daily life. Cohen was the editor and author of many articles and books including, \"The Art of Discrimination\" (1964), \"The Essential David Hume\" (1965), \"The Unfolding of 'The Season\" (1970),\"New Directions in Literary History\" (1974), \"Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics\" (1985), \"The Future of Literary Theory\" (1989), \"Studies in Historical Change\" (1992), \"History and...: Histories Within the Human Sciences\" (1995), and \"Literature and History\". He was well respected as an author and was best known for promoting the work of his colleagues through editing and publishing their articles.","He was married to Libby Okun Cohen for more than 70 years. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11, 1913. Due to persecution, her family emigrated to Vilna (now Vilnius) early in her life. She was a frequent companion in Ralph's classes and at his speaking engagements around the world, intent both on supporting her husband and continuing her own education. She co-wrote the index of Volumes I-X for the \"New Literary History\". She was a librarian at California State College Northridge and created the library at the Tandem Friends School where she was the librarian from 1970 to 1986. Under her inspired and challenging guidance, the multifaceted library generated unprecedented dialogue and quickly became known as \"Tandem's Cultural Center. The Tandem library honored her by naming it the Libby O. Cohen Library. She also helped build the multicultural library at the University's Sundberg International Center. She spoke many languages and partnered with her husband as a promoter of education and multiculturalism.  James Madison University established the Libby Okun Cohen Chair in technological humanism while her husband was teaching there. She was also an author of children stories, an independent genealogy researcher, a project coordinator for an oral history project that interviewed survivors from Nazi Germany, and an intergenerational program L'Dor V'Dor for young students to learn and share in the lives of older individuals.  Ralph and Libby Cohen had two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Cohen who were both born during World War II. Ruth Morris followed in her mother's footsteps by completing a doctorate in Information and Library Science at the University of Michigan, thereby initiating her career as a distinguished librarian. She was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some courses with Ralph Cohen.  Libby Cohen died at age 99 in 2013. Ralph Cohen also died at age 99 in 2016.","Sources:\nhttp://best-hashtags.com/hashtag/teacherappreciation/\nhttps://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-ralph-cohen-professor-who-transformed-literary-criticism-0\nhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/380552/pdf\nhttps://dailyprogress.com/ralph-cohen/article_de380d0a-185c-510e-b74d-3a33511feed3.html\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/469184?seq=1\nhttps://www.jmu.edu/cohencenter/our-people/cohen-ralph.shtml\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/236774952_History_and_Change_An_Interview_with_Ralph_Cohen\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Genre_Theory_and_Historical_Change_Theoretical_Ess?id=0PsmDwAAQBAJ\u0026hl=sw\nhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ralph-Cohen/dp/0813940117\nRalph Cohen, \"Notes for a History\" (from within the collection)\nVideo interview: \nhttps://www.jmu.edu/news/2010/10/18-ralph-cohen.shtml"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRG-24/54/1.151, Ralph Cohen papers and New Literary History records, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["RG-24/54/1.151, Ralph Cohen papers and New Literary History records, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the \"New Literary History\", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial information, audiocassettes of prominent scholars (of literary theory in the 1990's), computer disks with contributor's articles (1998-2006), and information from the Commonwealth Center of Literary and Cultural Change (1988-1995). The Center was founded and directed by Ralph Cohen at the University of Virginia and is represented in a quarterly issue of the New Literary History Journal (starting with Volume 20 in 1990). Some of the correspondence and articles from contributors are not included for some issues. (See Arrangement for details). The last issue of correspondence and articles represented in the paper collection is Volume 28 (1997). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoth the highly regarded New Literary History Journal and the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change reflect Cohen's belief that there is a need to understand multiple disciplines when evaluating literature and human nature. He also felt that it is necessary to nurture a genuine respect for different perspectives of other individuals as a pathway to becoming a better society. Each issue of the New Literary History Journal selects a theme and invites authors to create opposing dialogues. As a strong promoter of multiculturalism and feminism, he included authors from the non-western world, and men and women with varying points of view and different backgrounds. Frequent authors/contributors are George Garrett, Joyce A. Joyce, Ihab Hassan, Toril Moi, Xiaoying Wang, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bleich, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, Helene Cixous, William K. Winsat, Robert Weimann, Jonathan Culler, Martha Nussbaum, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Gerald Graff, Murray Krieger, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Hernstein Smith, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, Wolfgang Iser, Jean Starobinski, Northrup Frye, Geoffrey Hartman, Wolf Lupenies, Eddie Tomarken, Rene Welleck, Marshall McCluhan, Tzvetan Todorov, Terry Eagleton, Brian Stock, Catharine R. Stimpson, Frances Ferguson, Rita Felski, Rey Chow, Cora Diamond, Michael Prince, Winfried Fluck, Sandra Gilbert, Gary Saul Morson, Katherine Neeley, Stanley Fish, James M. Holquist, Keith Moxey, Richard Rorty, Walter Sokel, and many others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 2 the Ralph Cophen papers reflect his teaching and lecturing from the years 1948 to 2011 on Eighteenth-Century literature and literary theory such as correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, articles, conferences, manuscripts, and printed journals. The content in this part of the collection spans Ancient and Medieval Literature (\"The Greats\"), English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770 to 1900, British Literature, American 19th and 20th Century Literature and literary history, literary change, literary criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. These materials cover a complete and impressive range of literary authors and their works throughout the history of literature including the Bible, ballads and medieval manuscripts, Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Pope, Donne, Blake, Hume, Thomson, Dryden, Milton, Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Austen, Cather, T.S. Eliot, George Elliot, Ellen Glasgow, Emily Dickenson, the Romantics, the Nature Poets, Swift, Olaudah Equiano, James, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more. These lecture notes reveal the scope and wealth of Ralph Cohen's vast knowledge of literature and offer an opportunity for others to continue learning through his papers. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf interest are papers written by Ralph Cohen when he was a young college student, and which are included with the papers written by his students on similar subjects. There are also drafts of articles by Ralph Cohen outlining his plans for the New Literary History, and interviews with Ralph Cohen about his teaching. As an editor, Ralph Cohen sought to publish the work of his colleagues, but this collection has some of his original drafts of articles on literary theory. (Series 2: Box 85 and 86)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes the personal papers of Ralph Cohen's family including his wife, Libby Okun Cohen and their two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Morris. The Cohen's daughter was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some classes with Ralph Cohen. There are mementos and readings documenting many of the family Seder (Pesach Haggadah).  Libby Cohens' papers show her love of learning; her work in an intergenerational project (L'Dor V'Dor) with students and older generations; a Holocaust Oral History project, independent research in genealogy, and her career as an outstanding librarian.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the \"New Literary History\", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial information, audiocassettes of prominent scholars (of literary theory in the 1990's), computer disks with contributor's articles (1998-2006), and information from the Commonwealth Center of Literary and Cultural Change (1988-1995). The Center was founded and directed by Ralph Cohen at the University of Virginia and is represented in a quarterly issue of the New Literary History Journal (starting with Volume 20 in 1990). Some of the correspondence and articles from contributors are not included for some issues. (See Arrangement for details). The last issue of correspondence and articles represented in the paper collection is Volume 28 (1997).","Both the highly regarded New Literary History Journal and the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change reflect Cohen's belief that there is a need to understand multiple disciplines when evaluating literature and human nature. He also felt that it is necessary to nurture a genuine respect for different perspectives of other individuals as a pathway to becoming a better society. Each issue of the New Literary History Journal selects a theme and invites authors to create opposing dialogues. As a strong promoter of multiculturalism and feminism, he included authors from the non-western world, and men and women with varying points of view and different backgrounds. Frequent authors/contributors are George Garrett, Joyce A. Joyce, Ihab Hassan, Toril Moi, Xiaoying Wang, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bleich, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, Helene Cixous, William K. Winsat, Robert Weimann, Jonathan Culler, Martha Nussbaum, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Gerald Graff, Murray Krieger, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Hernstein Smith, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, Wolfgang Iser, Jean Starobinski, Northrup Frye, Geoffrey Hartman, Wolf Lupenies, Eddie Tomarken, Rene Welleck, Marshall McCluhan, Tzvetan Todorov, Terry Eagleton, Brian Stock, Catharine R. Stimpson, Frances Ferguson, Rita Felski, Rey Chow, Cora Diamond, Michael Prince, Winfried Fluck, Sandra Gilbert, Gary Saul Morson, Katherine Neeley, Stanley Fish, James M. Holquist, Keith Moxey, Richard Rorty, Walter Sokel, and many others.","In Series 2 the Ralph Cophen papers reflect his teaching and lecturing from the years 1948 to 2011 on Eighteenth-Century literature and literary theory such as correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, articles, conferences, manuscripts, and printed journals. The content in this part of the collection spans Ancient and Medieval Literature (\"The Greats\"), English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770 to 1900, British Literature, American 19th and 20th Century Literature and literary history, literary change, literary criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. These materials cover a complete and impressive range of literary authors and their works throughout the history of literature including the Bible, ballads and medieval manuscripts, Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Pope, Donne, Blake, Hume, Thomson, Dryden, Milton, Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Austen, Cather, T.S. Eliot, George Elliot, Ellen Glasgow, Emily Dickenson, the Romantics, the Nature Poets, Swift, Olaudah Equiano, James, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more. These lecture notes reveal the scope and wealth of Ralph Cohen's vast knowledge of literature and offer an opportunity for others to continue learning through his papers.","Of interest are papers written by Ralph Cohen when he was a young college student, and which are included with the papers written by his students on similar subjects. There are also drafts of articles by Ralph Cohen outlining his plans for the New Literary History, and interviews with Ralph Cohen about his teaching. As an editor, Ralph Cohen sought to publish the work of his colleagues, but this collection has some of his original drafts of articles on literary theory. (Series 2: Box 85 and 86)","The collection also includes the personal papers of Ralph Cohen's family including his wife, Libby Okun Cohen and their two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Morris. The Cohen's daughter was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some classes with Ralph Cohen. There are mementos and readings documenting many of the family Seder (Pesach Haggadah).  Libby Cohens' papers show her love of learning; her work in an intergenerational project (L'Dor V'Dor) with students and older generations; a Holocaust Oral History project, independent research in genealogy, and her career as an outstanding librarian."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is open for use except for restricted materials due to FERPA Boxes 138-150.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for use except for restricted materials due to FERPA Boxes 138-150."],"corpname_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library"],"persname_ssim":["Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016"],"names_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content 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Series 1. New Literary History Records (1969-2006) Boxes 1-42. Series 2. Ralph Cohen papers (1948-2015) Boxes 43-130 and Restricted (grades and recommendations) Boxes 138-150. Series 3. Cohen Family Papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-137.  Each series also has subseries.","Series 1, Subseries 1: Ralph Cohen's New Literary History correspondence as an editor and founder of the New Literary History Journal. It includes correspondence with the contributors (scholarly critics) along with their articles for publication. This makes up a substantial part of Series 1. (1969-1997) Boxes 3-33. There is also Ralph Cohen correspondence with other editors from 1984 to 1994 Boxes 1-3. Included is Ralph Cohen's teaching correspondence with his colleagues and students.  The teaching correspondence for the same time is also in Series 2. (It was not combined because the original order kept them separate.)","Series 1, Subseries 2: Ralph Cohen articles about planning the New Literary History Journal, and other print and manuscripts related to the Journal. (1975-2004) Boxes 33-34.","Series 1, Subseries 3: 686 audio cassette recordings of some of the contributors who were prominent scholars on literary theory in the 1990's. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 4 contains over 100 computer files with articles from contributors and prominent scholars of literary theory for the Journal from 1998-2006. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 5: financial records of the New Literary History Journal. (1969-1986) Boxes 34-37.","Series 1, Subseries 6: papers of the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change. (1988-1992) Boxes 37-42.\n  \n(There are no articles or correspondence representing the following issues: Volumes 1-III, Volume IV, Number 1, Volume VIII, Volume IX, Volume X, Volume XV, Volume XVI Number 1, and Number 2, Volume 23, Volume 24 Number 1 and Number 2, Volume 25, and Volume 27. The last issue represented in the paper collection is Volume 28(1997). The Journal issues change to cardinal numbers after Volume 19 and the Journal becomes quarterly after Volume 20 in 1990 so that the papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change could be included.","Series 2 Ralph Cohen papers contain Ralph Cohen's work as a teacher and leader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. (1948-2015)Boxes 49-130; Boxes 138-150 (restricted).","Series 2, Subseries 1: correspondence which is like the Ralph Cohen teaching correspondence in Series 1. There is also correspondence related to many of the organizations that were part of his work. (1971-2015) Boxes 43-49","Series 2, Subseries 2: Classes and Research is a significant part of Series 2 which contains class lecture notes, class materials, readings, conferences, printed articles and journals, manuscripts, and bibliographic research (on index cards). The term research mostly refers to the notes that he made for his lectures or the actual lectures. This subseries is organized loosely by periods in English Literature (Ancient and Medieval Literature \"The Greats\", English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770-1900, British Literature, American Literature 19th and 20th Century, then by literary history, literary change, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. Some of the class information and content may repeat throughout this series because many courses share similar authors and content.  Classes that Dr. Cohen taught in the 1950's can be found in the same folders with the classes that he taught in 2000 since he arranged them by class subject matter. Much of the material is not dated. Included within his course materials are papers that he wrote on similar subjects when he was a student at New York Teachers College in 1948 through 1950. (1948-2011) Boxes 49-130","Series 2, Subseries 3: restricted materials (due to FERPA) such as fellowships, grades, recommendations, and dissertation information. (1972-2013)Boxes 138-150. (Restricted items are mostly arranged by alphabetically or chronologically but they do not follow a consistent pattern in the original order)","Series 3: Family papers of Ralph Cohen. Subseries 1 contains Ralph Cohen's personal papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-132. Subseries 2. Libby Okun Cohen (and family papers) contain materials related to Libby Cohen, as a genealogist, researcher, and award-winning librarian. (1964-2002 and undated) Boxes 133-137.","Ralph Cohen (1917-2016) served as the William J. Kenan, Jr. professor of English (and professor emeritus) at the University of Virginia for an impressive 42 years (1967-2009). Born to Polish immigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey on February 23, 1917, Cohen became one of the most eminent critical thinkers and educators of Twentieth Century America with a career that spanned more than 60 years. (He also taught at the City College of New York (1947-1950), the University of California Los Angeles (1950-1967), and James Madison University (2010-2013). His focus was on 18th-Century British literature, and he was a pioneer in the field of literary theory. He founded and edited the \"New Literary History Journal\", which was the first journal of its kind to combine the study of literature with other disciplines. It won more than six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for its special issues, a unique honor among scholarly journals.  Cohen sought out different points of view from contributors across the globe to create more diverse dialogue in the journal. His extraordinary ability to promote and account for diverse positions on theory at professional conferences was legendary. He also founded and directed the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia (1988-1995). The Center was set up by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to study the concept of change in individuals, and institutions in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It also viewed the changes that develop in cultural, social, and political situations in African, Asian, and other non-western societies. The \"New Literary History\" Journal published articles and activities of the Center. In 2010 Cohen became the Provost's Distinguished Professor at James Madison University where he taught courses on Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Cohen's innovative concept of technology led to the establishment of the Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism at James Madison University. His celebrated transactive classroom strategies frequently attracted colleagues and devoted students to his courses. He taught and mentored many generations of students, preparing them for lives and careers as teachers and scholars. He maintained contact with many of his students and made recommendations supporting their teaching, fellowships, and tenure positions throughout their careers. Cohen was a dedicated teacher who examined the changing concepts and styles found in literature and other disciplines of study. Cohen led his students towards deeper insights into understanding cultural changes for society and increased awareness of their perceptions in professional and daily life. Cohen was the editor and author of many articles and books including, \"The Art of Discrimination\" (1964), \"The Essential David Hume\" (1965), \"The Unfolding of 'The Season\" (1970),\"New Directions in Literary History\" (1974), \"Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics\" (1985), \"The Future of Literary Theory\" (1989), \"Studies in Historical Change\" (1992), \"History and...: Histories Within the Human Sciences\" (1995), and \"Literature and History\". He was well respected as an author and was best known for promoting the work of his colleagues through editing and publishing their articles.","He was married to Libby Okun Cohen for more than 70 years. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11, 1913. Due to persecution, her family emigrated to Vilna (now Vilnius) early in her life. She was a frequent companion in Ralph's classes and at his speaking engagements around the world, intent both on supporting her husband and continuing her own education. She co-wrote the index of Volumes I-X for the \"New Literary History\". She was a librarian at California State College Northridge and created the library at the Tandem Friends School where she was the librarian from 1970 to 1986. Under her inspired and challenging guidance, the multifaceted library generated unprecedented dialogue and quickly became known as \"Tandem's Cultural Center. The Tandem library honored her by naming it the Libby O. Cohen Library. She also helped build the multicultural library at the University's Sundberg International Center. She spoke many languages and partnered with her husband as a promoter of education and multiculturalism.  James Madison University established the Libby Okun Cohen Chair in technological humanism while her husband was teaching there. She was also an author of children stories, an independent genealogy researcher, a project coordinator for an oral history project that interviewed survivors from Nazi Germany, and an intergenerational program L'Dor V'Dor for young students to learn and share in the lives of older individuals.  Ralph and Libby Cohen had two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Cohen who were both born during World War II. Ruth Morris followed in her mother's footsteps by completing a doctorate in Information and Library Science at the University of Michigan, thereby initiating her career as a distinguished librarian. She was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some courses with Ralph Cohen.  Libby Cohen died at age 99 in 2013. Ralph Cohen also died at age 99 in 2016.","Sources:\nhttp://best-hashtags.com/hashtag/teacherappreciation/\nhttps://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-ralph-cohen-professor-who-transformed-literary-criticism-0\nhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/380552/pdf\nhttps://dailyprogress.com/ralph-cohen/article_de380d0a-185c-510e-b74d-3a33511feed3.html\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/469184?seq=1\nhttps://www.jmu.edu/cohencenter/our-people/cohen-ralph.shtml\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/236774952_History_and_Change_An_Interview_with_Ralph_Cohen\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Genre_Theory_and_Historical_Change_Theoretical_Ess?id=0PsmDwAAQBAJ\u0026hl=sw\nhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ralph-Cohen/dp/0813940117\nRalph Cohen, \"Notes for a History\" (from within the collection)\nVideo interview: \nhttps://www.jmu.edu/news/2010/10/18-ralph-cohen.shtml","This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the \"New Literary History\", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial information, audiocassettes of prominent scholars (of literary theory in the 1990's), computer disks with contributor's articles (1998-2006), and information from the Commonwealth Center of Literary and Cultural Change (1988-1995). The Center was founded and directed by Ralph Cohen at the University of Virginia and is represented in a quarterly issue of the New Literary History Journal (starting with Volume 20 in 1990). Some of the correspondence and articles from contributors are not included for some issues. (See Arrangement for details). The last issue of correspondence and articles represented in the paper collection is Volume 28 (1997).","Both the highly regarded New Literary History Journal and the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change reflect Cohen's belief that there is a need to understand multiple disciplines when evaluating literature and human nature. He also felt that it is necessary to nurture a genuine respect for different perspectives of other individuals as a pathway to becoming a better society. Each issue of the New Literary History Journal selects a theme and invites authors to create opposing dialogues. As a strong promoter of multiculturalism and feminism, he included authors from the non-western world, and men and women with varying points of view and different backgrounds. Frequent authors/contributors are George Garrett, Joyce A. Joyce, Ihab Hassan, Toril Moi, Xiaoying Wang, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bleich, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, Helene Cixous, William K. Winsat, Robert Weimann, Jonathan Culler, Martha Nussbaum, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Gerald Graff, Murray Krieger, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Hernstein Smith, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, Wolfgang Iser, Jean Starobinski, Northrup Frye, Geoffrey Hartman, Wolf Lupenies, Eddie Tomarken, Rene Welleck, Marshall McCluhan, Tzvetan Todorov, Terry Eagleton, Brian Stock, Catharine R. Stimpson, Frances Ferguson, Rita Felski, Rey Chow, Cora Diamond, Michael Prince, Winfried Fluck, Sandra Gilbert, Gary Saul Morson, Katherine Neeley, Stanley Fish, James M. Holquist, Keith Moxey, Richard Rorty, Walter Sokel, and many others.","In Series 2 the Ralph Cophen papers reflect his teaching and lecturing from the years 1948 to 2011 on Eighteenth-Century literature and literary theory such as correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, articles, conferences, manuscripts, and printed journals. The content in this part of the collection spans Ancient and Medieval Literature (\"The Greats\"), English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770 to 1900, British Literature, American 19th and 20th Century Literature and literary history, literary change, literary criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. These materials cover a complete and impressive range of literary authors and their works throughout the history of literature including the Bible, ballads and medieval manuscripts, Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Pope, Donne, Blake, Hume, Thomson, Dryden, Milton, Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Austen, Cather, T.S. Eliot, George Elliot, Ellen Glasgow, Emily Dickenson, the Romantics, the Nature Poets, Swift, Olaudah Equiano, James, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more. These lecture notes reveal the scope and wealth of Ralph Cohen's vast knowledge of literature and offer an opportunity for others to continue learning through his papers.","Of interest are papers written by Ralph Cohen when he was a young college student, and which are included with the papers written by his students on similar subjects. There are also drafts of articles by Ralph Cohen outlining his plans for the New Literary History, and interviews with Ralph Cohen about his teaching. As an editor, Ralph Cohen sought to publish the work of his colleagues, but this collection has some of his original drafts of articles on literary theory. (Series 2: Box 85 and 86)","The collection also includes the personal papers of Ralph Cohen's family including his wife, Libby Okun Cohen and their two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Morris. The Cohen's daughter was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some classes with Ralph Cohen. There are mementos and readings documenting many of the family Seder (Pesach Haggadah).  Libby Cohens' papers show her love of learning; her work in an intergenerational project (L'Dor V'Dor) with students and older generations; a Holocaust Oral History project, independent research in genealogy, and her career as an outstanding librarian.","This collection is open for use except for restricted materials due to FERPA Boxes 138-150.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Ralph Cohen papers and \"New Literary History\" records, 1948/2016"],"collection_ssim":["Ralph Cohen papers and \"New Literary History\" records, 1948/2016"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["RG-24/54/1.151","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource 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(1988-1992) Boxes 37-42.\n  \n(There are no articles or correspondence representing the following issues: Volumes 1-III, Volume IV, Number 1, Volume VIII, Volume IX, Volume X, Volume XV, Volume XVI Number 1, and Number 2, Volume 23, Volume 24 Number 1 and Number 2, Volume 25, and Volume 27. The last issue represented in the paper collection is Volume 28(1997). The Journal issues change to cardinal numbers after Volume 19 and the Journal becomes quarterly after Volume 20 in 1990 so that the papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change could be included.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2 Ralph Cohen papers contain Ralph Cohen's work as a teacher and leader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. (1948-2015)Boxes 49-130; Boxes 138-150 (restricted). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2, Subseries 1: correspondence which is like the Ralph Cohen teaching correspondence in Series 1. There is also correspondence related to many of the organizations that were part of his work. (1971-2015) Boxes 43-49 \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2, Subseries 2: Classes and Research is a significant part of Series 2 which contains class lecture notes, class materials, readings, conferences, printed articles and journals, manuscripts, and bibliographic research (on index cards). The term research mostly refers to the notes that he made for his lectures or the actual lectures. This subseries is organized loosely by periods in English Literature (Ancient and Medieval Literature \"The Greats\", English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770-1900, British Literature, American Literature 19th and 20th Century, then by literary history, literary change, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. Some of the class information and content may repeat throughout this series because many courses share similar authors and content.  Classes that Dr. Cohen taught in the 1950's can be found in the same folders with the classes that he taught in 2000 since he arranged them by class subject matter. Much of the material is not dated. Included within his course materials are papers that he wrote on similar subjects when he was a student at New York Teachers College in 1948 through 1950. (1948-2011) Boxes 49-130\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 2, Subseries 3: restricted materials (due to FERPA) such as fellowships, grades, recommendations, and dissertation information. (1972-2013)Boxes 138-150. (Restricted items are mostly arranged by alphabetically or chronologically but they do not follow a consistent pattern in the original order) \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 3: Family papers of Ralph Cohen. Subseries 1 contains Ralph Cohen's personal papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-132. Subseries 2. Libby Okun Cohen (and family papers) contain materials related to Libby Cohen, as a genealogist, researcher, and award-winning librarian. (1964-2002 and undated) Boxes 133-137.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The Ralph Cohen papers, and New Literary History records (1948-2016) are arranged into three series. Series 1. New Literary History Records (1969-2006) Boxes 1-42. Series 2. Ralph Cohen papers (1948-2015) Boxes 43-130 and Restricted (grades and recommendations) Boxes 138-150. Series 3. Cohen Family Papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-137.  Each series also has subseries.","Series 1, Subseries 1: Ralph Cohen's New Literary History correspondence as an editor and founder of the New Literary History Journal. It includes correspondence with the contributors (scholarly critics) along with their articles for publication. This makes up a substantial part of Series 1. (1969-1997) Boxes 3-33. There is also Ralph Cohen correspondence with other editors from 1984 to 1994 Boxes 1-3. Included is Ralph Cohen's teaching correspondence with his colleagues and students.  The teaching correspondence for the same time is also in Series 2. (It was not combined because the original order kept them separate.)","Series 1, Subseries 2: Ralph Cohen articles about planning the New Literary History Journal, and other print and manuscripts related to the Journal. (1975-2004) Boxes 33-34.","Series 1, Subseries 3: 686 audio cassette recordings of some of the contributors who were prominent scholars on literary theory in the 1990's. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 4 contains over 100 computer files with articles from contributors and prominent scholars of literary theory for the Journal from 1998-2006. (List available upon request)","Series 1, Subseries 5: financial records of the New Literary History Journal. (1969-1986) Boxes 34-37.","Series 1, Subseries 6: papers of the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change. (1988-1992) Boxes 37-42.\n  \n(There are no articles or correspondence representing the following issues: Volumes 1-III, Volume IV, Number 1, Volume VIII, Volume IX, Volume X, Volume XV, Volume XVI Number 1, and Number 2, Volume 23, Volume 24 Number 1 and Number 2, Volume 25, and Volume 27. The last issue represented in the paper collection is Volume 28(1997). The Journal issues change to cardinal numbers after Volume 19 and the Journal becomes quarterly after Volume 20 in 1990 so that the papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change could be included.","Series 2 Ralph Cohen papers contain Ralph Cohen's work as a teacher and leader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. (1948-2015)Boxes 49-130; Boxes 138-150 (restricted).","Series 2, Subseries 1: correspondence which is like the Ralph Cohen teaching correspondence in Series 1. There is also correspondence related to many of the organizations that were part of his work. (1971-2015) Boxes 43-49","Series 2, Subseries 2: Classes and Research is a significant part of Series 2 which contains class lecture notes, class materials, readings, conferences, printed articles and journals, manuscripts, and bibliographic research (on index cards). The term research mostly refers to the notes that he made for his lectures or the actual lectures. This subseries is organized loosely by periods in English Literature (Ancient and Medieval Literature \"The Greats\", English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770-1900, British Literature, American Literature 19th and 20th Century, then by literary history, literary change, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. Some of the class information and content may repeat throughout this series because many courses share similar authors and content.  Classes that Dr. Cohen taught in the 1950's can be found in the same folders with the classes that he taught in 2000 since he arranged them by class subject matter. Much of the material is not dated. Included within his course materials are papers that he wrote on similar subjects when he was a student at New York Teachers College in 1948 through 1950. (1948-2011) Boxes 49-130","Series 2, Subseries 3: restricted materials (due to FERPA) such as fellowships, grades, recommendations, and dissertation information. (1972-2013)Boxes 138-150. (Restricted items are mostly arranged by alphabetically or chronologically but they do not follow a consistent pattern in the original order)","Series 3: Family papers of Ralph Cohen. Subseries 1 contains Ralph Cohen's personal papers (1964-2016) Boxes 131-132. Subseries 2. Libby Okun Cohen (and family papers) contain materials related to Libby Cohen, as a genealogist, researcher, and award-winning librarian. (1964-2002 and undated) Boxes 133-137."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRalph Cohen (1917-2016) served as the William J. Kenan, Jr. professor of English (and professor emeritus) at the University of Virginia for an impressive 42 years (1967-2009). Born to Polish immigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey on February 23, 1917, Cohen became one of the most eminent critical thinkers and educators of Twentieth Century America with a career that spanned more than 60 years. (He also taught at the City College of New York (1947-1950), the University of California Los Angeles (1950-1967), and James Madison University (2010-2013). His focus was on 18th-Century British literature, and he was a pioneer in the field of literary theory. He founded and edited the \"New Literary History Journal\", which was the first journal of its kind to combine the study of literature with other disciplines. It won more than six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for its special issues, a unique honor among scholarly journals.  Cohen sought out different points of view from contributors across the globe to create more diverse dialogue in the journal. His extraordinary ability to promote and account for diverse positions on theory at professional conferences was legendary. He also founded and directed the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia (1988-1995). The Center was set up by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to study the concept of change in individuals, and institutions in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It also viewed the changes that develop in cultural, social, and political situations in African, Asian, and other non-western societies. The \"New Literary History\" Journal published articles and activities of the Center. In 2010 Cohen became the Provost's Distinguished Professor at James Madison University where he taught courses on Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Cohen's innovative concept of technology led to the establishment of the Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism at James Madison University. His celebrated transactive classroom strategies frequently attracted colleagues and devoted students to his courses. He taught and mentored many generations of students, preparing them for lives and careers as teachers and scholars. He maintained contact with many of his students and made recommendations supporting their teaching, fellowships, and tenure positions throughout their careers. Cohen was a dedicated teacher who examined the changing concepts and styles found in literature and other disciplines of study. Cohen led his students towards deeper insights into understanding cultural changes for society and increased awareness of their perceptions in professional and daily life. Cohen was the editor and author of many articles and books including, \"The Art of Discrimination\" (1964), \"The Essential David Hume\" (1965), \"The Unfolding of 'The Season\" (1970),\"New Directions in Literary History\" (1974), \"Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics\" (1985), \"The Future of Literary Theory\" (1989), \"Studies in Historical Change\" (1992), \"History and...: Histories Within the Human Sciences\" (1995), and \"Literature and History\". He was well respected as an author and was best known for promoting the work of his colleagues through editing and publishing their articles. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe was married to Libby Okun Cohen for more than 70 years. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11, 1913. Due to persecution, her family emigrated to Vilna (now Vilnius) early in her life. She was a frequent companion in Ralph's classes and at his speaking engagements around the world, intent both on supporting her husband and continuing her own education. She co-wrote the index of Volumes I-X for the \"New Literary History\". She was a librarian at California State College Northridge and created the library at the Tandem Friends School where she was the librarian from 1970 to 1986. Under her inspired and challenging guidance, the multifaceted library generated unprecedented dialogue and quickly became known as \"Tandem's Cultural Center. The Tandem library honored her by naming it the Libby O. Cohen Library. She also helped build the multicultural library at the University's Sundberg International Center. She spoke many languages and partnered with her husband as a promoter of education and multiculturalism.  James Madison University established the Libby Okun Cohen Chair in technological humanism while her husband was teaching there. She was also an author of children stories, an independent genealogy researcher, a project coordinator for an oral history project that interviewed survivors from Nazi Germany, and an intergenerational program L'Dor V'Dor for young students to learn and share in the lives of older individuals.  Ralph and Libby Cohen had two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Cohen who were both born during World War II. Ruth Morris followed in her mother's footsteps by completing a doctorate in Information and Library Science at the University of Michigan, thereby initiating her career as a distinguished librarian. She was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some courses with Ralph Cohen.  Libby Cohen died at age 99 in 2013. Ralph Cohen also died at age 99 in 2016.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSources:\nhttp://best-hashtags.com/hashtag/teacherappreciation/\nhttps://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-ralph-cohen-professor-who-transformed-literary-criticism-0\nhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/380552/pdf\nhttps://dailyprogress.com/ralph-cohen/article_de380d0a-185c-510e-b74d-3a33511feed3.html\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/469184?seq=1\nhttps://www.jmu.edu/cohencenter/our-people/cohen-ralph.shtml\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/236774952_History_and_Change_An_Interview_with_Ralph_Cohen\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Genre_Theory_and_Historical_Change_Theoretical_Ess?id=0PsmDwAAQBAJ\u0026amp;hl=sw\nhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ralph-Cohen/dp/0813940117\nRalph Cohen, \"Notes for a History\" (from within the collection)\nVideo interview: \nhttps://www.jmu.edu/news/2010/10/18-ralph-cohen.shtml\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Ralph Cohen (1917-2016) served as the William J. Kenan, Jr. professor of English (and professor emeritus) at the University of Virginia for an impressive 42 years (1967-2009). Born to Polish immigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey on February 23, 1917, Cohen became one of the most eminent critical thinkers and educators of Twentieth Century America with a career that spanned more than 60 years. (He also taught at the City College of New York (1947-1950), the University of California Los Angeles (1950-1967), and James Madison University (2010-2013). His focus was on 18th-Century British literature, and he was a pioneer in the field of literary theory. He founded and edited the \"New Literary History Journal\", which was the first journal of its kind to combine the study of literature with other disciplines. It won more than six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for its special issues, a unique honor among scholarly journals.  Cohen sought out different points of view from contributors across the globe to create more diverse dialogue in the journal. His extraordinary ability to promote and account for diverse positions on theory at professional conferences was legendary. He also founded and directed the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia (1988-1995). The Center was set up by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to study the concept of change in individuals, and institutions in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It also viewed the changes that develop in cultural, social, and political situations in African, Asian, and other non-western societies. The \"New Literary History\" Journal published articles and activities of the Center. In 2010 Cohen became the Provost's Distinguished Professor at James Madison University where he taught courses on Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Cohen's innovative concept of technology led to the establishment of the Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism at James Madison University. His celebrated transactive classroom strategies frequently attracted colleagues and devoted students to his courses. He taught and mentored many generations of students, preparing them for lives and careers as teachers and scholars. He maintained contact with many of his students and made recommendations supporting their teaching, fellowships, and tenure positions throughout their careers. Cohen was a dedicated teacher who examined the changing concepts and styles found in literature and other disciplines of study. Cohen led his students towards deeper insights into understanding cultural changes for society and increased awareness of their perceptions in professional and daily life. Cohen was the editor and author of many articles and books including, \"The Art of Discrimination\" (1964), \"The Essential David Hume\" (1965), \"The Unfolding of 'The Season\" (1970),\"New Directions in Literary History\" (1974), \"Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics\" (1985), \"The Future of Literary Theory\" (1989), \"Studies in Historical Change\" (1992), \"History and...: Histories Within the Human Sciences\" (1995), and \"Literature and History\". He was well respected as an author and was best known for promoting the work of his colleagues through editing and publishing their articles.","He was married to Libby Okun Cohen for more than 70 years. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 11, 1913. Due to persecution, her family emigrated to Vilna (now Vilnius) early in her life. She was a frequent companion in Ralph's classes and at his speaking engagements around the world, intent both on supporting her husband and continuing her own education. She co-wrote the index of Volumes I-X for the \"New Literary History\". She was a librarian at California State College Northridge and created the library at the Tandem Friends School where she was the librarian from 1970 to 1986. Under her inspired and challenging guidance, the multifaceted library generated unprecedented dialogue and quickly became known as \"Tandem's Cultural Center. The Tandem library honored her by naming it the Libby O. Cohen Library. She also helped build the multicultural library at the University's Sundberg International Center. She spoke many languages and partnered with her husband as a promoter of education and multiculturalism.  James Madison University established the Libby Okun Cohen Chair in technological humanism while her husband was teaching there. She was also an author of children stories, an independent genealogy researcher, a project coordinator for an oral history project that interviewed survivors from Nazi Germany, and an intergenerational program L'Dor V'Dor for young students to learn and share in the lives of older individuals.  Ralph and Libby Cohen had two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Cohen who were both born during World War II. Ruth Morris followed in her mother's footsteps by completing a doctorate in Information and Library Science at the University of Michigan, thereby initiating her career as a distinguished librarian. She was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some courses with Ralph Cohen.  Libby Cohen died at age 99 in 2013. Ralph Cohen also died at age 99 in 2016.","Sources:\nhttp://best-hashtags.com/hashtag/teacherappreciation/\nhttps://news.virginia.edu/content/memoriam-ralph-cohen-professor-who-transformed-literary-criticism-0\nhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/380552/pdf\nhttps://dailyprogress.com/ralph-cohen/article_de380d0a-185c-510e-b74d-3a33511feed3.html\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/469184?seq=1\nhttps://www.jmu.edu/cohencenter/our-people/cohen-ralph.shtml\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/236774952_History_and_Change_An_Interview_with_Ralph_Cohen\nhttps://play.google.com/store/books/details/Genre_Theory_and_Historical_Change_Theoretical_Ess?id=0PsmDwAAQBAJ\u0026hl=sw\nhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ralph-Cohen/dp/0813940117\nRalph Cohen, \"Notes for a History\" (from within the collection)\nVideo interview: \nhttps://www.jmu.edu/news/2010/10/18-ralph-cohen.shtml"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRG-24/54/1.151, Ralph Cohen papers and New Literary History records, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["RG-24/54/1.151, Ralph Cohen papers and New Literary History records, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the \"New Literary History\", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial information, audiocassettes of prominent scholars (of literary theory in the 1990's), computer disks with contributor's articles (1998-2006), and information from the Commonwealth Center of Literary and Cultural Change (1988-1995). The Center was founded and directed by Ralph Cohen at the University of Virginia and is represented in a quarterly issue of the New Literary History Journal (starting with Volume 20 in 1990). Some of the correspondence and articles from contributors are not included for some issues. (See Arrangement for details). The last issue of correspondence and articles represented in the paper collection is Volume 28 (1997). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoth the highly regarded New Literary History Journal and the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change reflect Cohen's belief that there is a need to understand multiple disciplines when evaluating literature and human nature. He also felt that it is necessary to nurture a genuine respect for different perspectives of other individuals as a pathway to becoming a better society. Each issue of the New Literary History Journal selects a theme and invites authors to create opposing dialogues. As a strong promoter of multiculturalism and feminism, he included authors from the non-western world, and men and women with varying points of view and different backgrounds. Frequent authors/contributors are George Garrett, Joyce A. Joyce, Ihab Hassan, Toril Moi, Xiaoying Wang, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bleich, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, Helene Cixous, William K. Winsat, Robert Weimann, Jonathan Culler, Martha Nussbaum, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Gerald Graff, Murray Krieger, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Hernstein Smith, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, Wolfgang Iser, Jean Starobinski, Northrup Frye, Geoffrey Hartman, Wolf Lupenies, Eddie Tomarken, Rene Welleck, Marshall McCluhan, Tzvetan Todorov, Terry Eagleton, Brian Stock, Catharine R. Stimpson, Frances Ferguson, Rita Felski, Rey Chow, Cora Diamond, Michael Prince, Winfried Fluck, Sandra Gilbert, Gary Saul Morson, Katherine Neeley, Stanley Fish, James M. Holquist, Keith Moxey, Richard Rorty, Walter Sokel, and many others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Series 2 the Ralph Cophen papers reflect his teaching and lecturing from the years 1948 to 2011 on Eighteenth-Century literature and literary theory such as correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, articles, conferences, manuscripts, and printed journals. The content in this part of the collection spans Ancient and Medieval Literature (\"The Greats\"), English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770 to 1900, British Literature, American 19th and 20th Century Literature and literary history, literary change, literary criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. These materials cover a complete and impressive range of literary authors and their works throughout the history of literature including the Bible, ballads and medieval manuscripts, Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Pope, Donne, Blake, Hume, Thomson, Dryden, Milton, Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Austen, Cather, T.S. Eliot, George Elliot, Ellen Glasgow, Emily Dickenson, the Romantics, the Nature Poets, Swift, Olaudah Equiano, James, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more. These lecture notes reveal the scope and wealth of Ralph Cohen's vast knowledge of literature and offer an opportunity for others to continue learning through his papers. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf interest are papers written by Ralph Cohen when he was a young college student, and which are included with the papers written by his students on similar subjects. There are also drafts of articles by Ralph Cohen outlining his plans for the New Literary History, and interviews with Ralph Cohen about his teaching. As an editor, Ralph Cohen sought to publish the work of his colleagues, but this collection has some of his original drafts of articles on literary theory. (Series 2: Box 85 and 86)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes the personal papers of Ralph Cohen's family including his wife, Libby Okun Cohen and their two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Morris. The Cohen's daughter was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some classes with Ralph Cohen. There are mementos and readings documenting many of the family Seder (Pesach Haggadah).  Libby Cohens' papers show her love of learning; her work in an intergenerational project (L'Dor V'Dor) with students and older generations; a Holocaust Oral History project, independent research in genealogy, and her career as an outstanding librarian.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the teaching, research, and personal papers of Ralph Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of English from the University of Virginia from 1948-2016; and the records of the \"New Literary History\", an international, interdisciplinary, award-winning journal that Cohen founded and edited from 1969 to 2009 at the University of Virginia. The records of the New Literary History Journal (1969-2016) (Series 1) contain correspondence, contributors' articles, proofs, financial information, audiocassettes of prominent scholars (of literary theory in the 1990's), computer disks with contributor's articles (1998-2006), and information from the Commonwealth Center of Literary and Cultural Change (1988-1995). The Center was founded and directed by Ralph Cohen at the University of Virginia and is represented in a quarterly issue of the New Literary History Journal (starting with Volume 20 in 1990). Some of the correspondence and articles from contributors are not included for some issues. (See Arrangement for details). The last issue of correspondence and articles represented in the paper collection is Volume 28 (1997).","Both the highly regarded New Literary History Journal and the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change reflect Cohen's belief that there is a need to understand multiple disciplines when evaluating literature and human nature. He also felt that it is necessary to nurture a genuine respect for different perspectives of other individuals as a pathway to becoming a better society. Each issue of the New Literary History Journal selects a theme and invites authors to create opposing dialogues. As a strong promoter of multiculturalism and feminism, he included authors from the non-western world, and men and women with varying points of view and different backgrounds. Frequent authors/contributors are George Garrett, Joyce A. Joyce, Ihab Hassan, Toril Moi, Xiaoying Wang, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Bleich, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, Helene Cixous, William K. Winsat, Robert Weimann, Jonathan Culler, Martha Nussbaum, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Gerald Graff, Murray Krieger, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Hernstein Smith, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, Wolfgang Iser, Jean Starobinski, Northrup Frye, Geoffrey Hartman, Wolf Lupenies, Eddie Tomarken, Rene Welleck, Marshall McCluhan, Tzvetan Todorov, Terry Eagleton, Brian Stock, Catharine R. Stimpson, Frances Ferguson, Rita Felski, Rey Chow, Cora Diamond, Michael Prince, Winfried Fluck, Sandra Gilbert, Gary Saul Morson, Katherine Neeley, Stanley Fish, James M. Holquist, Keith Moxey, Richard Rorty, Walter Sokel, and many others.","In Series 2 the Ralph Cophen papers reflect his teaching and lecturing from the years 1948 to 2011 on Eighteenth-Century literature and literary theory such as correspondence, lecture notes, class materials, articles, conferences, manuscripts, and printed journals. The content in this part of the collection spans Ancient and Medieval Literature (\"The Greats\"), English and Continental Literature 1660-1770, English and Continental Literature 1770 to 1900, British Literature, American 19th and 20th Century Literature and literary history, literary change, literary criticism, aesthetics, psychology, and genre. These materials cover a complete and impressive range of literary authors and their works throughout the history of literature including the Bible, ballads and medieval manuscripts, Chaucer, Homer, Virgil, Pope, Donne, Blake, Hume, Thomson, Dryden, Milton, Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Austen, Cather, T.S. Eliot, George Elliot, Ellen Glasgow, Emily Dickenson, the Romantics, the Nature Poets, Swift, Olaudah Equiano, James, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more. These lecture notes reveal the scope and wealth of Ralph Cohen's vast knowledge of literature and offer an opportunity for others to continue learning through his papers.","Of interest are papers written by Ralph Cohen when he was a young college student, and which are included with the papers written by his students on similar subjects. There are also drafts of articles by Ralph Cohen outlining his plans for the New Literary History, and interviews with Ralph Cohen about his teaching. As an editor, Ralph Cohen sought to publish the work of his colleagues, but this collection has some of his original drafts of articles on literary theory. (Series 2: Box 85 and 86)","The collection also includes the personal papers of Ralph Cohen's family including his wife, Libby Okun Cohen and their two children, Ruth Cohen Morris, and David Morris. The Cohen's daughter was married to David B. Morris who co-taught some classes with Ralph Cohen. There are mementos and readings documenting many of the family Seder (Pesach Haggadah).  Libby Cohens' papers show her love of learning; her work in an intergenerational project (L'Dor V'Dor) with students and older generations; a Holocaust Oral History project, independent research in genealogy, and her career as an outstanding librarian."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is open for use except for restricted materials due to FERPA Boxes 138-150.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["This collection is open for use except for restricted materials due to FERPA Boxes 138-150."],"corpname_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library"],"persname_ssim":["Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016"],"names_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Cohen, Ralph, 1917-2016"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content 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