Miscellaneous papers of George D. Painter relating to Marcel Proust
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Contains ‘Assessment on Project of Dr Alma C. Saraydar’; Painter’s examiner’s report of G. R. Garnett’s M.Litt. dissertation on Proust’s reception in England and the U.S.A.; two issues of Museen in Köln Bulletin; prints of Proust, Bertrand de Fenelon, and Simone de Caillavet; and articles ‘Rememb...
Includes reviews of books by or about Proust, Kafka, Angus Wilson, Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck, Henry Williamson, George Barker, John Cowper Powys, Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Auden, Rimbaud, Joyce Cary, Matthew Arnold, Anatole France, Montesquiou. The majority of the reviews are from The Listener an...
George D. Painter's papers relating to François-René de Chateaubriand
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Includes: an autograph letter by Chateaubriand [no year], purchased by Painter in 1970; correspondence with the Société Chateuabriand and the French Embassy in London relating to a proposal to site a blue plaque on a building occupied by Chateuabriand in London; correspondence of Painter and Pie...
Contains: ‘André Gide’s visit to Oxford, 5-8 June, 1947. (Strictly confidential report written by Enid Starkie)’; reviews of Painter’s André Gide: a critical and biographical study (published in 1951); and a typescript of an article by Painter, ‘Dorothy Bussy and Gide’.
Contains notes, cuttings, and a typewritten introduction. Painter, with R. A. Skelton and T. E. Marston, published The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation in 1965.
Includes a student society poster; a photograph of Painter; biographical details; notes on the chambered cairn tombs at Dyffryn Ardudwy written for Painter's grandsons; papers, including a transcript, relating to Painter’s appearance on BBC Radio 3's Man of Action in 1979; papers relating to the ...
Includes: galley proof of Painter's The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. An introduction on the dream, the dreamer, the artist, and the printer (London: Eugrammia Press, 1963); a prospectus for the Eugrammia Press's 1964 collotype facsimile of Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Apocalypse; a copy of Le d...