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Bibliography and Links
"Something Very Real" --
Langston
Hughes and Richmond, Virginia
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
Langston Hughes:
Barksdale, Richard K. Langston Hughes: The Poet and his Critics.
Chicago: American Library Association, 1977.
Bernard, Emily. Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes
and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. New York: Knof, 2001.
Berry, Faith. Langston Hughes, Before and Beyond Harlem. Westport,
Conn.: L. Hill, 1983.
Bloom, Harold. Langston Hughes. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1989.
Emanual, James A. Langston Hughes. New York: Twaine Publishers,
1967.
Gates Jr., Henry Louis and K. A. Appiah. Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives
Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993.
Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Autobiography. New York: Thunder
Mouth's Press, 1986.
Miller, R. Baxter. The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Ostrom, Hans. A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 2002.
Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Internet Resources:
Langston Hughes -- A site maintained by the Academy
of American Poets. The site features
biographic information and a list of links.
Langston Hughes -- Sponsored by the
Modern American
Poetry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the site features a collection of
critical, historical, and biographical information taken
from a variety of sources and compiled into a useful listing.
The Langston Hughes Review
-- A site maintained by the University of Georgia, home to the Langston
Hughes Review publication.
Carl Van Vechten:
:
Coleman, Leon. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Critical Assessment.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
Kellner, Bruce. Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades. Norman: University
of Okalahoma Press, 1968.
Kellner, Bruce. Letters of Carl Van Vechten. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1987. Kellner, Bruce.
Friends and Mentors, Richmond's Carl Van Vechten and Mark Lutz: An Address
Given By Bruce Kellner on the Occasion of the Spring Meeting of the Friends
of the Boatwright Memorial Library at Windsor, May 29, 1979. Richmond : Whittet & Shepperson, 1979.
Lueders, Edward. Carl Van Vechten. New York: Twaine Publishing, 1965.
Lueders, Edward. Carl Van Vechten and the Twenties. Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 1955.
Internet Resources:
African-American
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1953 -- An online exhibit featuring 1,600 images by Van Vechten. The site
is maintained by Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries.
Creative American Portraits by Carl Van Vechten --
Part of the Library of Congress'
American Memory Collection.
The site includes a searchable database of 1,395 images
consisting mainly of portraits of celebrities, including many connected with the Harlem Renaissance.
It also includes an image of
James Branch Cabell taken by Carl Van Vechten from April, 1935.
Hunter Stagg, The Reviewer
and Richmond, Virginia:
Clark, Emily. Ingénue Among the Lions. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1965.
Clark, Emily. Innocence Abroad. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1975.
Dabney, Virginius. Richmond: The Story of a City. Charlottesville: University
of Virginia Press, 1990.
Duke, Maurice. "The Reviewer: A Bibliographical Guide to a Little Magazine," from Resources for American Literary Study, Spring 1971, Vol. 1, No. 1. [Includes an introduction to the history of the Reviewer and an index to its contents.]
Hoffman, Steven J. Race, Class and Power in Building of Richmond, 1870-1920.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2003.
MacDonald, Edgar E. James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia. Jackson:
University of Mississippi Press, 1993.
MacDonald, Edgar E. "The Reception of Two Black Artists in Mid-1920s
Richmond." Ellen Glasgow Newsletter, October 1977. Other issues of this journal have materials on Richmond's
literary scene of the 1920s. Special Collections and Archives houses a complete set of this journal.
Scott, Elizabeth. "In fame, not specie": The Reviewer [Magazine], Richmond's
Oasis in "The Sahara of the Bozart," Virginia Cavalcade, Volume 27, Number
3, Winter 1978.
Wise, Benjamin E. "'An Experiment in Southern Letters': Reconsidering the Role of The Reviewer in the Southern Renaissance." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 113. 2 (2005): 146–178.
Manuscript Collections held by Special Collections and Archive pertaining to Richmond's Literary Scene
of the 1920s:
James Branch Cabell Papers. Special
Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Papers, Virginia Commonwealth
University.
Margaret Freeman Cabell
Papers. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library,
Virginia Commonwealth University
Edgar E. MacDonald Papers. Special Collections and Archives,
James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Hunter T. Stagg Papers. Special Collections and Archives,
James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Emma Gray Trigg Papers.
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia
Commonwealth University.
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