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Papers and Essays on Cabell

"Hagiography and The High Place", by Stephen Wetta

From Michael Keith’s Liner Notes for Deems Taylor’s Jurgen (Winner of the Cabell Prize for 1999)

"The Heir of James Branch Cabell: The Biography of the Life of the Biography of the Life of Manuel (A Comedy of Inheritances)", by Bill Patterson

"James Branch Cabell", by David Langford

"James Branch Cabell (1879-1958): America's Greatest Mythmaker", by Desmond Tarrant (at The Lost Club Journal)

Charles Farrell Gray. The theory of literature of James Branch Cabell. Ph.D. thesis 1931.

 

Fan Pages, Blogs, Discussions

Mike Keith’s Cabell page: Overview and Personal Notes

An appreciation of James Branch Cabell at the Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Work Website

A Forum on The Best Of James Branch Cabell at Great Science-Fiction and Fantasty Works website

Wirkman’s Cabell page, with appreciation and more for The Music from Behind the Moon

Karl Beech’s blog essays on Florimel the Vampire, and on Jurgen

Peter Suber’s Cabell collection

Some books from Mike Berra’s Cabell collection, illustrated

Jessica Amamda Salmonson's Chronological Checklist of the Biography of Manuel

 

Reviews

A review of Domnei at SFReviews

Danny Yees’ review of Figures of Earth

On Cabell's Illustrators

From Ian Schoenherr’s Howard Pyle blog: On “The Story of Adhelmar” about Pyle illustrating an early Cabell story.

Frank C Papé at JVJ Publishing’s ILLUSTRATORS page

Papé’s Illustrations for Cabell’s Jurgen, by Burton Rascoe

Biography

James Branch Cabell page at Everything Explained

Cabell and Aleister Crowley

A Memorandum Regarding The Book of the Law

Aleister Crowley Writes James Branch Cabell

Letters from Cabell to Ben Ray Redman

Some Cabell Letters at History For Sale

Two F. Scott Fitzgerald books inscribed to Cabell stolen from the Cabell Special Collection at VCU

Miscellaneous

Cabell’s magazine pieces at The Fiction Mag Index

"Jurgen – A play based on the novel by George [sic] Branch Cabell", by Frank J. Morlock

"Smoke, Lilies and Jade", by Bruce Nugent (a seminal Harlem Renaissance story that makes much ado about Cabell and Jurgen)

Cabell e-texts

Cabell, James Branch. The Eagle's Shadow (1904). New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904.

Cabell, James Branch. The Line of Love. (1905). New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905.

Cabell, James Branch. Branchiana: Being a Partial Account of the Branch Family in Virginia (1907). Richmond, Va., Printed by Whittet & Shepperson.

Cabell, James Branch. Gallantry; dizain des fêtes galantes (1907). New York and London, Harper & brothers, 1907.

Cabell, James Branch. "The New Virginia." A "tribute." P. 118 in Julia Wyatt Bullard, ed., Jamestown Tributes and Toasts. Lynchburg: Self-published, 1907.

Cabell, James Branch. The Cords of Vanity (1909). New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909.

Cabell, James Branch. Chivalry (1909). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909.

Cabell, James Branch. The Soul of Melicent (1913). Illustrations by Howard Pyle. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1913.

Cabell, James Branch. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations (1915). New York: Robert M.McBride & Company, 1915.

Cabell, James Branch. The Majors and their Marriages, with Collateral Accounts of the Allied Families of Aston,Ballard, Christian, Dancy, Hartwell, Hubard, Macon, Marable, Mason, Patterson, Piersey, Seawell, Stephens,Waddill, and Others (1915). Richmond: W. C. Hill Printing Co., 1915.

Cabell, James Branch. The Certain Hour: Dizain des Poetes (1916). New York: Robert M. McBride Company, 1916.

Cabell, James Branch. The Cream of the Jest: a comedy of evasions. (1917). New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917.

Cabell, James Branch. The Cream of the Jest (The revised 1922 text). New York: Robert M. McBride Company, 1922.

Cabell, James Branch. Beyond Life: Dizain Des Démiurges (1919). New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1919.

Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen (The 1921 Bodley Head text, with the Frank C. Papé illustrations). London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1921.

Cabell, James Branch. The Judging of Jurgen (1920). Chicago: Bookfellows, 1920. Reprinted from the New York Tribune. Hand inscribed.

Bierstadt, Edward Hale, Barrett H. Clark, and Sidney Howard. Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (1920). New York: Privately printed for the Emergency Committee, 1920.

Walpole, Hugh. The Art of James Branch Cabell: With an Appendix of Individual Comment Upon the Cabell Books (1920). New York, Robert M. McBride, 1920.

Cabell, James Branch. Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship (1921). New York: Robert McBride, 1921. Domnei is a revised version of The Soul of Melicent (1913), restoring Cabell's original title. Preface by Joseph Hergesheimer; critical comments by E. Noel Codman and Paul Verville.

Cabell, James Branch. Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances (1921). New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1921.

Cabell, James Branch. Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir (1921). New York: Robert McBride, 1921. Dedicated to John S. Sumner, agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

Cabell, James Branch. Joseph Hergesheimer: An Essay in Interpretation (1921). Chicago: Bookfellows, 1921.

Cabell, James Branch. The Jewel Merchants (1921). New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1921.

Cabell, James Branch. The Lineage of Lichfield: an Essay in Eugenics (1922). New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1922.

Twelve American Novelists. The Novel of Tomorrow And the Scope of Fiction. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. Reprinted from a supplement to The New Republic of April 12, 1922.

De Vore Johnson, Merle. A Bibliographic Check-list of the Works of James Branch Cabell, 1904-1921 (1921). New York: Frank Shay, 1921.

Anonymous. Poor Jack: A Play in One Act. (1906 for 1927). Richmond: Privately printed, 1906. This is a forgery. Although dated 1906, it was actually printed in 1927. Poor Jack is based on the text of the story "Love Letters of Falstaff", as it appeared in the 1921 revised version of The Line of Love.

Cabell, James Branch. Some of Us: An Essay In Epitaphs. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930.