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...historic room, also known as Eliot C-11, served as the office of Professor of History and Literature Francis Otto Matthiessen until his 1950 suicide—and now houses the Matthiessen Memorial Library’s 1,600 volumes, which constituted Matthiessen’s working library...
Kevin P. Van Anglen, the keeper of the Matthiessen Room, said he hopes to make the room more available to students and hold more public openings in the future...
...definitely think people should go to the Matthiessen Room when they have a chance,” said James A. Gray ’04, who attended the opening Sunday. “It only takes 10 minutes or so, and there’s a lot of historical and literary knowledge to be gained...
...room contains a small portion of Matthiessen’s voluminous correspondence and copies of the works of his contemporaries—many of which are stored at Yale, where Matthiessen received his bachelor’s degree...
Many scholars credit Matthiessen with first establishing American literature as an individuated art form in his seminal 1941 study The American Renaissance, which focuses on 19th-century authors including Whitman and Melville. While some modern critics find its focus on white male New England writers too narrow, Van Anglen said it remains influential...