Maurice Lévy papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

MSS 15822, Maurice Lévy papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Summary

Extent:
3.25 Cubic Feet 6 legal document boxes, 1 legal half-width document box
Creator:
Lévy, Maurice, 1929-
Language:
Materials are primarily in French, with a substantial minority in English.
Preferred citation:

MSS 15822, Maurice Lévy papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Background

Scope and content:

The Maurice Lévy papers (1952-2012; 3.25 cubic feet) document the research, professional career, and personal life of Maurice Lévy. The bulk of the collection consists of research papers and publications, with subjects ranging from gothic literature to William Faulkner to H.P. Lovecraft. The collection also contains conference talks given by Lévy, correspondence with universities and grant agencies, publications from Lévy's organization CERLI (Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur les Littératures de l'Imaginaire), and a few photographs of Lévy with family members.

This addition to the MSS 15822 Maurice Lévy papers contains a manuscript titled "Tell About the South" by Nicole Moulinoux. This bound volume of interview transcriptions was compiled in 1993 from Moulinoux's conversations with prominent Southern writers in Charlottesville, VA, including George Garrett, whose papers (MSS 13272) are held at the Small Special Collections Library.

The volume contains transcripts from interviews with the following writers: Reynolds Price, Shelby Foote, Margaret Walker, Cleanth Brooks, Ernest Gaines, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, George Garrett, and Mary Lee Settle.

Biographical / historical:

Maurice Lévy was born in Constantine, Algeria on July 9, 1929. Lévy wrote his dissertation on English gothic literature, making extensive use of the University of Virginia's Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Literature and quickly became known as a pre-eminent scholar on the subject. In 2009, Lévy contacted UVa to donate his personal collection of French Gothic translations. Lévy died in 2012.

Source: UVa Today, Caliban volume 31

Acquisition information:
This collection was a gift from Ellen Lévy to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library in 2014
Arrangement:

The collection has been arranged by five subject areas and then chronologically within each subject.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard