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Professor
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English
University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters; Department of English. B.A. (1949), M.A. (1952), Ph.D (1957) and D.Litt. (honoris causa),1989 (National University of Ireland), M.A. 1964 (University of Cambridge).
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Areas of Research/Interest:
Modern English, Irish, and American Literature; aesthetics and the practice on reading
Select Publications:
We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society. University of California Press. December 1988.
Reading America: Essays on American Literature. University of California Press. December 1988.
England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature. New York. 1988.
Warrenpoint. Syracuse University Press. November 1994.
Being Modern Together. Scholars Pr. July 1991.
The Pure Good of Theory. Blackwell Publishers. May 1992.
The Old Moderns: Essays on Literature and Theory. 1980.
Walter Pater:Lover of Strange Souls. New York: Knopf. 1995.
The Practice of Reading. Yale. 1988.
Words Alone: The Poet T.S.Eliot. Yale University Press. June 2000.
Adam's Curse: Reflections on Literature and Religion. University of Notre Dame Press. May 2001.
Speaking of Beauty. Yale University Press. August 2004.
The American Classics. Yale University Press May 2005.
On Eloquence.
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