Guide to the Papers of Stephen Knight, 1977-1991

Summary

Collection number:

MS 9336

Creator:

Stephen Knight

Extent:

0.7 metres and (5 boxes)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Stephen Knight, National Library of Australia, MS 9336, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The collection comprises correspondence, articles, and typescript drafts of stories, reviews, and other papers relating to Knight's book The selling of the Australian mind (1990)and his collections of crime short stories, including Dead witness (1989), Crimes for a summer Christmas (1990), A corpse at the opera house (1992). There is also an unpublished manuscript entitled 'Radical reader 2'.

The correspondents include Michael Wilding, Raymond Southall, Peter Corris, Steve Wright, Janette Turner Hospital, Martin Long, Robert Hood, Mudrooroo, Caroline Lurie and Allen Unwin.

Biographical Note:

Stephen Knight was born on 21 September 1940 an educated at Bournemouth Grammar School and the University of Oxford. He was appointed Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney in 1963 and lecturer in English in 1964. In 1968-69 he was lecturer in English at the Australian National University. He returned to the University of Sydney in 1970 where he was successively Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor. In 1987 he was appointed Robert Wallace Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. In 1992 Knight returned to England to take up a chair at the De Montfort University at Leicester.

Most of Stephen Knight's scholarly writings have been in the area of medieval English literature. They include The structure of Sir Thomas Malory's Arthuriad (1970), Rymyng craftily; form and meaning in Chaucer's poetry (1973), The poetry of the Canterbury Tales (1974), Arthurian literature and society (1984) and Geoffrey Chaucer (1986).

Knight has also had a long interest in crime fiction. He was the author of Form and ideology in crime fiction (1980) and Continent of mystery; a thematic history of Australian crime fiction (1997). Between 1989 and 1992 he edited four anthologies of Australian crime stories.

Provenance:

These papers were purchased by the Library from Stephen Knight in 1992.

Indexed terms

Names:

Stephen Knight

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1762258).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Stephen Knight, National Library of Australia, MS 9336, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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