Cabell articles on offer

Twenty-two articles and reviews on or related to James Branch Cabell, from the Sewanee Review, Southern Literary Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies etc etc from the 'teens through the 80s (or 90s?)...

This is stuff I accessed thorugh JSTOR and other academic archives. I can't access them from home but if I drive to my alma mater (which I do several times a year) I can access them there and email them to myself as pdf attachments.

But wait! there's more!! You Too can have these Cabell articles for just $19.95... well, actually, for free. The only catch is, the 22 articles are attached to 8 different emails and I ain't gonna sort through them to send you just the ones you want... but i'll be glad to forward you all 8 emails and you can open the pdfs and ignore or discard the ones you don't want and read or print the ones you do. For free. Just for the sake of gittin' this material out there. Some of it is "eh" but some is primo. One of the most interesting shows how closely JBC cribbed from Ralston's Russian Fairy Tales-- not just borrowed the names Koschei and Leshy but actually repurposed Ralston's text, as Shakespeare did with North's Plutartch. Heady shit, man.

Anyway, if you want these, just email me off list at llwyd53@gmail.com and give me the email address you want them sent to. I'll wait a few weeks before sending, accumulating addresses, so that I only have to do it once...

Beautiful. Email on its way.

acknowledging three requests so far, but as i said, i won't send em out for a couple weeks so that those who didnt see or respond right away can still get on the list.

5 takers now...

These articles have now been sent. It turns out to have been 7 emails with 21 articles rather than 8/22 -- I found the eighth was a duplicate. If anyone didn't get them ok or has any questions, just ask...

You are a gem of a man, Bill!

( B- ) >

They've all arrived in fine form, and I've just browsed through the first seven. None of these seem to me the "eh" variety, and 7 of 21 is already winning odds! Many thanks for sending them, they'll make for great reading.

Thank you, thank you!

I'll add my thanks as well.

I enjoyed reading (and re-reading) "The Vampire" (from file jbc2) last night. My first association from the title was Polidori's "The Vampyre", which along with much gothic horror fiction from the early 19th century, never really appealed to me. But Cabell's tale is, to me, more satisfyingly subtle horror.

I look forward to working through the rest of the files over the coming weeks.

-DCB

A general You're Welcome to one and all...

I've just read WR Parker's "A Key to Cabell" (1) and found it quite instructive. Convenient, that many of the quotes Parker selected are from one or another of the three Cabell titles I've read, or am reading just now.

I had begun to wonder if I would place Cabell among the Decadents in literature. I think it may be a valid pigeonhole, still, or leastwise as valid as any. But Parker does a fine job of making explicit that which I vaguely felt but couldn't quite put a finger to: JBC is an idealist, and a realist, and in the end, sensibly optimistic. Picking any one does violence to the Cabellian style.

I also finished Cabell's own "Vitality en Vogue" (2), and though it is for the most part an entertainment which contributes nothing not already present in his novels (again, those which I've read), it is a victory in that he defends and skewers the article's own readership, all at once. Brilliant.

1 - file jbc11
2 - file jbc13