Marshall W. Fishwick Papers
Scope and Content
Professor of Humanities and Communication Studies at Virginia Tech since 1976, he introduced academic programs for American popular culture studies in the US and abroad. He founded the Popular Culture Association and began the journal, International Popular Culture. He authored many publications, including Gentlemen of Virginia (1961), The Hero, American Style (1969), Common Culture and the Great Tradition (1982), and Cicero and Popular Culture(posthumously published, 2006). Typescript manuscripts of Common Culture and the Great Tradition and Searching for Cicero by Fishwick are in the collection, along with his "Where do 'American Studies' Begin?" (1959) and sheet music he wrote for "Welcome to our Fair City." In addition to his academic pursuits, his papers contain his writings from his early years in the American Fleet during World War II, his poetry, correspondence, photographs and more.
Dates
- Creation: 1940s-2006
Creator
- Fishwick, Marshall William (Person)
Full Extent
75 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Separated Materials
The following books were removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:
- Van Auken, Sheldon. "The Southern Historical Novel in the Early Twentieth Century" in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XIV, No. 2, May 1948.
- Brown, Katharine L. Hills of the Lord: Background of the Episopal Church in Southwestern Virginia, 1738-1938. Roanoke: Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, 1979.
- Eliot, T. S. Collected Poems, 1901-1935. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
- Fishwick, Marshall W. Around the World in Forty Years. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1984.
- Fishwick, Marshall W. Common Culture and the Great Tradition: The Case for Renewal. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982.
- Fishwick, Marshall W. The Face of Jang: A Collection of Poems. New York, Hobson Book Press, 1945.
- Fishwick, Marshall W. Gentlemen of Virginia. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1961.
- Fishwick, Marshall W. Isle of Shoals. New York, N.Y., Hobson Book Press, 1946.
- Fishwick, Marshall W. Lee After the War. New York, Dodd, Mead [1963].
- Fishwick, Marshall W. Virginia: A New Look at the Old Dominion. New York, Harper [1959].
- Fishwick, Marshall W. The Virginia Tradition. Washington, Public Affairs Press [1956]
- Fishwick, Marshall W., ed. The World of Ronald McDonald.
- LeBerge, Ann and Mashall Fishwick. From a Minimalist Kitchen: Simple Cooking for Post-Moderns.
- Thompson, Jonathan R. Education and Literature in Virginia: An Address Delivered before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 18 June 1850. Richmond: H. K. Ellyson's Power Press, 1850.
- Tompkins, Edmond Pendelton. Rockbridge County, Virginia: An Informal History. Ed. by Marshall W. Fishwick. Richmond, Whittet & Shepperson, 1952.
- Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989, c1987.
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Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu