Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage [Hardcover]

Robert C. Evans (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Bucknell Univ Pr (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838751369
• ISBN-13: 978-0838751367
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,932,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ROBERT C. EVANS

I. B. YOUNG PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY


Education 1978 84 Ph.D., Princeton University / 1973 77 B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pittsburgh

Fellowships: Richard M. Weaver Fellowship / Princeton University Fellowship / Whiting Foundation / Newberry Library / American Council of Learned Societies / Folger Shakespeare Library / Mellon Foundation / Huntington Library / National Endowment for the Humanities / American Philosophical Society / UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Awards: G. E. Bentley Prize / 1989 Professor of the Year for Alabama, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education / AUM Faculty Excellence Award / AUM Distinguished Research Professor / AUM University Alumni Professor / AUM Distinguished Teaching Professor / Director, two-year Mellon seminar on critical pluralism / Departmental Award for Collaborative Work with Students / Keynote speaker, Utah Shakespearean Festival / Professor of the Year, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English

University Appointments: Past Preceptor, Honors Program / Past Director of the Learning Center / Interim Department Head, Department of English and Philosophy

External Service: One of three editors of the Ben Jonson Journal / past member of the editorial board of Explorations in Renaissance Culture / editor for Renaissance drama and book review editor, Comparative Drama / service on National Awards Committee, American Association of University Women / editorial board, Iter/MRTS Bibliography of English Writers, 1500-1640 / editorial board of Renaissance English Texts Society / contributing editor, Donne Variorum Edition / South Atlantic Review Prize Committee

Books: Author or editor of more than twenty books (on such topics as Ben Jonson, Martha Moulsworth, Kate Chopin, John Donne, Frank O'Connor, Brian Friel, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Tan, early modern women writers, pluralist literary theory, literary criticism, twentieth-century American writers, American novelists, and seventeenth-century English literature)

Articles and notes: Author of roughly two hundred published or forthcoming essays or notes on a variety of topics, especially dealing with Renaissance literature, critical theory, women writers, short fiction, and American literature

Other: Profiled in Contemporary Authors

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Treatment of the Subject, July 3, 2000

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This review is from: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage (Hardcover)

This book stands as the most important study of the fascinating world of Elizabethan patronage, as well as the finest book on Jonson in 50 years.