Gaslight digest of discussion from 97-apr-11 to 97-apr-13
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Gaslight digest from 97-apr-11 to 97-apr-13
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:49:24 -0700 (MST)
From: "STEPHEN DAVIES, MT. ROYAL COLLEGE"
Subject: Etext avail: Train's "A murder conspiracy"; Chambers and
Jerome in HTML [11208]
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:42:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ
Subject: Titanic? [11209]
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:56:03 -0700 (MST)
From: "STEPHEN DAVIES, MT. ROYAL COLLEGE"
Subject: Gaslight reading schedule for 1997-April/May [11210]
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 23:47:01 -0700
From: Jack Kolb
Subject: Re: What's the story across the pond? [11211]
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:57:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Debah(at)aol.com
Subject: Re: Gaslight reading schedule for 1997-April/May [11210]
[11212]
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:42:53 -0400
From: Debra Eisert
Subject: Re: Stephen Crane [11198] [11213]
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:20:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ
Subject: Re: Stephen Crane [11198] [11213] [11214]
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:49:24 -0700 (MST)
From: "STEPHEN DAVIES, MT. ROYAL COLLEGE"
Subject: Etext avail: Train's "A murder conspiracy"; Chambers and
Jerome in HTML [11208]
RICECNSP.NON
Arthur Train specialized in non-fiction crime writing
after his stint as an assistant D.A. in New York. This
is the story of William Rice, founder of Rice University
Texas, who was the victim of "A murder conspiracy" in
1900.
Files previously available only in ASCII are now mounted
on the Gaslight website, but not linked to the main
pages. Here are the specific addresses:
"A murder conspiracy"
www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/ricecnsp.htm
Robert W. Chambers' "The Purple Emperor"
www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/purplemp.htm
Jerome K. Jerome's _Stage-land_ (c. 1897, unknown ed.)
www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/stg-menu.htm
Stephen D
SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:42:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ
Subject: Titanic? [11209]
Does anyone know the exact time, EST, that the Discovery Channel
special on
the Titanic will be show this Sunday?
Bob Champ
rchamp(at)europa.umuc.edu
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:56:03 -0700 (MST)
From: "STEPHEN DAVIES, MT. ROYAL COLLEGE"
Subject: Gaslight reading schedule for 1997-April/May [11210]
[With apologies for x-posting to Hounds-L, Victoria, Dorothyl,
Horror, Gaslight and Rec.Arts.Mystery]
GASLIGHT is a discussion list which studies one story a week,
written between 1800 and 1919, in three loose genres: mystery,
adventure and The Weird.
Here is the reading list for 1997-April/May
April
07 Stephen Crane's "Manacled" (1900) (Adventure)
(Prepared by Klaus Johansen)
14 Robert Chambers' "The purple emperor" (1897)
(Mystery)
21 Thomas Ingoldsby's "The spectre of Tappington" (1840)
(Weird)
28 Arthur B. Reeves' Craig Kennedy in "The invisible ray"
(Mystery)
(Prepared by Robert Champ)
Also, stories by Louis Becke, the "Kipling of the Pacific";
and true
crime stories: the murder of William M. Rice, the benefactor
of Rice
University, as written by Arthur Train; and others by Wilkie
Collins.
May
Weird stories of the American South
05 Ellen Glasgow's "Her past" (1920)
12 Kate Chopin's "The letters" (1895)
19 John Bennett's "Remember service"
(All prepared by Deborah McMillion)
26 Joseph Conrad's _The heart of darkness_ (1899)
the three installments from _Blackwood's Magazine_
(Prepared by Cindy Kogut)
Also, essays about Sensational literature, and the final
chapters of
Robert Barr's _The triumphs of Eugene Valmont_
(1905).
With thanks to John Squires, Leonard Roberts and Ruth
Jeffries
for contributions.
_________________________________________________________________
For more information contact the list coordinators at Mount
Royal
College, Calgary:
Stephen Davies and Diana Patterson
Gaslight-safe(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
or visit the Gaslight website at
www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 23:47:01 -0700
From: Jack Kolb
Subject: Re: What's the story across the pond? [11211]
Isn't this a Stevenson story? Or is it Dylan Thomas's work? I
promise to
acknowledge any and all respondents. Thanks to this blearied
person, who is
trying to finish four articles. Jack.
Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb(at)ucla.edu
>Return-Path:
>Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:15:27 -0600
>Reply-To: Darwin and Natural Selection
>Sender: Darwin and Natural Selection
>From: Dan D
>Subject: Re: What's the story across the pond?
>To: DARWIN(at)YORKU.CA
>
>As I recall, 'Subscriber' wrote:
>> This morning on the radio news I heard tell of an accomplished
artist in
>> the UK. that had been arrested. Seems the police found human
body parts at
>> his residence. The artist was noted for his finely crafted
bust and human
>> figures. I was busy at work at the time and did not catch the
particulars.
>> Could it be that he was producing reverse molds? Do any of
you have the
>> facts on this news item?
>
>Michelangelo and Da Vinci used to purchase corpses to study
>musculature for their sculptures. The practice was
>completely illegal at the time, but produced some of the
>world's most historic works. They employed graverobbers.
>
>I remember an episode of Tales from the Darkside or similar show
>where a medical instructor was purchasing cadavers on the black
>market for his classes. Supply was running short and he offered
>his henchmen extra money to come up with one any way they could.
>They murdered a woman walking down an alley.
>
>The instructor got the corpse in front of his class and pulled
>off the sheet to discover his dead wife. (not surprising, of
course)
>
>-DanD
>
>
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:57:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Debah(at)aol.com
Subject: Re: Gaslight reading schedule for 1997-April/May [11210]
[11212]
In a message dated 4/11/97 11:50:44 PM, you wrote:
>Weird stories of the American South
> 05 Ellen Glasgow's "Her past" (1920)
> 12 Kate Chopin's "The letters" (1895)
> 19 John Bennett's "Remember service"
> (All prepared by Deborah McMillion)
Corrections on Stephen's list, with regards to his poor knees:
it is Ellen
Glasgow's "The Past" and Kate Chopin's "Her Letters". Thanks.
Deborah McMillion
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:42:53 -0400
From: Debra Eisert
Subject: Re: Stephen Crane [11198] [11213]
An acquaintance of mine, Chuck LaRocca, has spent several years
researching the activities of the NY 124th Regiment in the Civil
War. Most of the recruits would have come from Orange County NY,
where Crane lived in Port Jervis.
At one time it was Chuck's contention that the battle scenes in
Red Badge of Courage are consonant with those actually fought by
the 124th (AKA the Orange Blossoms). He postulated that Crane
had listened to so many veterans discussing the war growing up
that his memory gave him the realism.
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:20:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Champ
Subject: Re: Stephen Crane [11198] [11213] [11214]
Debra writes:
>An acquaintance of mine, Chuck LaRocca, has spent several years
>researching the activities of the NY 124th Regiment in the Civil
>War. Most of the recruits would have come from Orange County
NY,
>where Crane lived in Port Jervis.
>At one time it was Chuck's contention that the battle scenes in
>Red Badge of Courage are consonant with those actually fought by
>the 124th (AKA the Orange Blossoms). He postulated that Crane
>had listened to so many veterans discussing the war growing up
>that his memory gave him the realism.
I'm very far from being a Crane scholar, but this kind of
association
rings true, especially given the unromanticized vision of war
that
permeates Crane's book--a vision more likely to have come from
men who were
there and had experienced the horrors of war firsthand.
A good memory, we are often told, is a writer's stock in trade,
and Crane
undoubtedly had a good one. He was also, of course, a journalist
(think
of all the really first-rate American writers who started off as
journalists!) and consequently must have had the healthy respect
for facts
that the field once bred--as well as an ability to sniff out
"stretchers" as Mark Twain (another good journalist) once
labelled lies
told in the service of the teller's ego.
The tales of garrulous old men sometimes become art, though the
old
men themselves aren't artists. Along these lines, recall Thomas
Wolfe's
beautifully rendered story "Chickamauga," which he claimed was an
almost
verbatim recounting of the story of that battle as told to him by
a great
uncle.)
Bob Champ
rchamp(at)europa.umuc.edu
(End of Gaslight digest)