Van Buskirk Archive

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thank you, @ESQJournal, @CUNYenglish, and @MelvilleSociety! https://t.co/OEzJqZJN6W

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Congratulations to Matthew Knip on winning the 2017 Hennig Cohen Prize of the Melville Society for his ESQ 62.2 essay, "Homosocial Desire and Erotic Communitas in Melville Imaginary: The Evidence of Van Buskirk"! Take a look at the essay on Project MUSE if you haven't already!

[Van Buskirk Archive @MatthewKnip]

First draft of seven years of diary—221,406 words, 584 pages of diary, a text longer than Moby-Dick—completed and ready for final editing.

[Van Buskirk Archive @MatthewKnip]

Before Straight and Gay https://t.co/RJpj7IQl43

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Initial transcription of the years 1852-1855 is complete. We are currently transcribing 1856-1858, and approaching 200,000 words.

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The Van Buskirk Archive has received a second round of funding from the GC's Digital Initiatives program. Thanks @mkgold and @lmrhody!!

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Hildegard Hoeller joined our team today as our manuscript editorial advisor. Thank you so much, Hildegard! Your enthusiasm was energizing!

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Matthew is at MMLA in St. Louis today presenting a paper, “Class, Intimacy, and Identity in the Journals of Philip C. Van Buskirk, 1852-57.”

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ICYMI: Student @matthew_knip's essay Homosocial Desire & Erotic Communitas in Melville’s Imaginary @ESQJournal https://t.co/6nEx5DNlKi

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Moby was a whale of a bad hombre. I would have killed that whale. I can't tell you how dead that whale would have been. #trumpbookreport

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"I have allowed my beard to grow, but [...] no abatement in the unnatural lust of the wretches who are disposed to pay me court as a boy."

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In today's newly transcribed pages (110-11) VB struggles to avoid foods that “aggravate the debility of the generative organs.”

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The 1853 "Journal and Remark Book" is now scanned and publicly available on the first page of our site.