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{"value"=>"MssCol 3608", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"3608", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1977-1984", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1977/1984"}
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1977
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1984
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1977
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{"value"=>"Roger Austen papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Correspondence and writings of gay literary historian Roger Austen, author of <span class=\"title\">Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America</span> (1977), and <span class=\"title\">Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard</span> (ed. by John W. Crowley, 1991)."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Roger Austen Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Austen, Roger", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Roger Austen (1935-1984) was a literary historian whose work focused on gay writers. He was the author of <span class=\"title\">Playing the Game: the Homosexual Novel in America</span> (1977), and <span class=\"title\">Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard</span>, which was unpublished at the time of his suicide. The Stoddard manuscript was later edited by Austen's friend and mentor, Syracuse University professor John W. Crowley, and published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1991. Additional biographical information and an account of Austen's friendship with Crowley can be found in Crowley's lengthy preface to <span class=\"title\">Genteel Pagan</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Roger Austen Papers contain his correspondence with John W. Crowley, Carl Stroven, and Thomas Brumbaugh, 1977-1984, unpublished essays on D.H. Lawrence and Jack London, a short story, and manuscripts of <span class=\"title\">Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard</span>, and \"Boomerang,\" a study of the homosexual scandal at the Newport Naval Training Station in 1919. Much of the correspondence concerns Austen's research on Stoddard and his difficulties getting his work published.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Roger Austen papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3608#c192842'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3608#c192847'>II. Writings</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Roger Austen Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>I. Correspondence</li> <li>II. Writings</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of John W. Crowley, 1997; 2002</p>"}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Melanie A. Yolles; machine readable finding aid created by FAKER.</p>"}
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.8 linear feet linear feet (2 boxes)
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1977
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1984