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{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence from throughout Dickstein's career comprises this series, which is ordered chronologically from 1960 to 2018. Much of the correspondence is between Dickstein and fellow humanities scholars, including professors in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy; this correspondence concerns various academic endeavors (writing, conference planning, teaching) and discussions of literature and culture. Other correspondents include magazine, journal, and university press editors; grant and fellowship coordinators; and university administrators, particularly from Queens College. There are many drafts of letters and emails Dickstein wrote from the 1990s to the 2000s.</p> <p>Dickstein maintained extended correspondence with Allen N. Fitchen at the University of Chicago Press over the publication of his first book, <span class=\"title\">Keats and his Poetry: A Study in Development</span>, as well as with Barbara Speyer, William Phillips, and Edith Kurzweil at <span class=\"title\">Partisan Review</span>. Other correspondents of note include Gene H. Bell of Williams College, philosopher Marshall Berman, Italian translator Francesco Binni, Jim Bloom of Muhlenberg College, literary agent Georges Borchardt, Daniel Born of Marietta College, Bob Boyers at Bennington College and Skidmore College, Malcolm Bradbury, Ray Carney of Boston University, George Core of the <span class=\"title\">Sewanee Review</span>, Bernard Dick, Philip French of the BBC, Lawyer Martin Margulies, Mike Novak of Saint Mary College in Kansas, Carol Orr at Princeton University Press, Janice Price of Methuen and Company, and Abby Zito of Middlebury College.</p> <p>Additional letters, particularly those from prominent authors and critics from outside of Dickstein's immediate intellectual circle, can be found in series I. Letters of recommendation written by Dickstein are held in series IV.</p>"}