Will Self: Exeter College Oxford, undergraduate essays
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Various undergraduate essays (autograph) written at Exeter College, Oxford. Includes some printed material listing lectures (Faculty of Social Studies) 1980 and 1982.
Will Self: Walking to Hollywood (first word-processed draft)
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Word-processed draft, lacking concluding mini-chapters of 'Very Little', and also 'My Name is Bond', 'The Atrium' and 'Afterword'. Revised and annotated throughout in pencil. The pages of the chapters are numbered as separate files. (1). 'Very Little': 1. 'Sherman Oaks', pp. 1-13. 2. 'Round the...
Whole publications including material by Self: Vol. 1, issue 8 (Apr-May 1993). Self referred to briefly in article by Julie Birchill on 'our most promising novelists' (p. 21). Vol. 1, issue 11 (Oct-Nov 1993). 'Will Self on William Burroughs' new hip hop album'. Vol. 1, issue 13 (Feb-Mar 1994). S...
Revised typescript, described as '2nd corrected draft' on a covering sheet (not in Self's hand): 'Author's Preface' (autograph), dated 'November 1991' (pp. i-ii); word processed draft, revised by hand (pp. 2-117).
Various autograph and word-processed notes (some with 'post-it' notes attached), including notes on cards, chapter outlines (13-18 and Epilogue), and 76 numbered apothegms (many but not all 'ticked' in pencil).
The file comprises: original envelope front in which the material was received (addressed to Self, franked 19 Feb 2003); pencil notes (3 sheets) headed 'Voices' which briefly describe the voices of each character, e.g. 'Wotton - lisping, arch, camp, affected'; Dorian abridged by Kati Nicholl (pp...