The Mystique of the Archive Reading List
Harlot's Ghost
The Archivist
Collecting the Imagination
Books Featured in The Mystique of the Archive
Samuel Beckett, How It Is
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
Don DeLillo, Underworld
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
John Fowles, The Magus
Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost
Peter Matthiessen, Far Tortuga
Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet
Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
Leon Uris, Battle Cry
Arnold Wesker, As Much as I Dare
Books about Archives
Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
A. S. Byatt, Possession
Martha Cooley, The Archivist
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Brian Friel, Give Me Your Answer, Do!
Doris Lessing, Canopus in Argos: Archives Series
Penelope Lively, According to Mark
Dave Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Non-fiction related to Archives
Megan Barnard, ed., Collecting the Imagination
Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger
Joseph Sax, Playing Darts with a Rembrandt
Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters
Carolyn Steedman, Dust: The Archive and Cultural History
EXHIBITION
The Mystique of the Archive explores archives themselves, the archival process, and the culture surrounding archives
The Arrival
of a Collection
Join the Ransom Center's archivists and conservators as they unpack the more than 60 boxes of new John Fowles material, inspecting it for insect and mold infestation while simultaneously completing an organizational assessment of the items.
