Saturday, March 31, 2007
Updates to queries at sites
I've spent most of today in updating the Stephen Crane Society, Edith Wharton Society, and W. D. Howells Society sites.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Dreiser's An American Tragedy
While working on Dreiser's An American Tragedy, I've been reading the trial transcripts of Chester Gillette's murder trial online and have added some links to the Dreiser page. It's possible to see just how directly Dreiser quotes from the transcript.
The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York includes information on the real-life Chester Gillette (Clyde Griffith in the book) murder case that inspired An American Tragedy, including a webcast lecture on the case and trial transcripts. The first 450 pages or so of the transcript focus on selecting jurors, etc.; the statement of the case concerning Grace "Billy" Brown (the Roberta Alden figure) begins in Vol. 1, p. 481. These can be compared with Dreiser's treatment of the case in An American Tragedy.
Chester's letters to Billy, Vol. 1, p. 567
Billy's letters to Chester, Vol 1., p. 570
Witness hearing a cry at the time of Grace Brown's murder, Vol. 2, p. 89
Testimony about Chester's recollections of the crime, Vol. 2, pp. 150 and following
Chester Gillette's testimony, Vol. 3; his account of what happened, p. 24; p. 35, claims that he did not strike Grace Brown
The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York includes information on the real-life Chester Gillette (Clyde Griffith in the book) murder case that inspired An American Tragedy, including a webcast lecture on the case and trial transcripts. The first 450 pages or so of the transcript focus on selecting jurors, etc.; the statement of the case concerning Grace "Billy" Brown (the Roberta Alden figure) begins in Vol. 1, p. 481. These can be compared with Dreiser's treatment of the case in An American Tragedy.
Chester's letters to Billy, Vol. 1, p. 567
Billy's letters to Chester, Vol 1., p. 570
Witness hearing a cry at the time of Grace Brown's murder, Vol. 2, p. 89
Testimony about Chester's recollections of the crime, Vol. 2, pp. 150 and following
Chester Gillette's testimony, Vol. 3; his account of what happened, p. 24; p. 35, claims that he did not strike Grace Brown
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
New bibliography on Nella Larsen
I posted a new bibliography on Nella Larsen.
Also, I've removed all the web forms from my American lit site and the author society sites, this time for good. The spammers got hold of these and were sending disgusting messages on them, sometimes 60-70 messages a day. Since about 1/70th of these were legitimate messages from people wanting to post queries, I couldn't simply blacklist the messages.
To try to guard against more spam, I've set up separate e-mail accounts on Gmail and have embedded the addresses using Unicode-encoded addresses. The volume of formmail-related spam has dropped to almost nothing and should drop to 0 messages once the Google cache of these on the web is refreshed or replaced.
Also, I've removed all the web forms from my American lit site and the author society sites, this time for good. The spammers got hold of these and were sending disgusting messages on them, sometimes 60-70 messages a day. Since about 1/70th of these were legitimate messages from people wanting to post queries, I couldn't simply blacklist the messages.
To try to guard against more spam, I've set up separate e-mail accounts on Gmail and have embedded the addresses using Unicode-encoded addresses. The volume of formmail-related spam has dropped to almost nothing and should drop to 0 messages once the Google cache of these on the web is refreshed or replaced.
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