Three corrections to Evidence of Influences already

Since the publication of Evidence of Influences on John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, including Geoffrey Chaucer, I have run across three items so far that I would have fixed in the original text.

First, O'Connor's "Artificial Nigger" is a short story. I erroneously italicized the title rather than putting it in quotation marks. The error in format makes it appear as though it is a novel rather than a short story.

Second, in the long footnote at the end of part one of the paper, I tried to list every author to whom Toole has been compared in the published scholarly literature. I missed at least one author: Ruppersburg compared Ignatius Reilly to George Washington Harris's Sut Lovingood. Harris should be included in the list of authors who do not appear in the Toole Papers, along with others like Henry David Thoreau.

Third, Ruppersburg also suggests that Toole was influenced by T.S. Eliot (125). The only reference to Eliot in the Toole Papers was an answer to one question in a simple quiz for English 102 undated (box 2, folder 9).