Christian Gauss Award

Given by Phi Beta Kappa Society

Andre Navne: Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society (Engelsk)
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The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, vis mere the distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. To be eligible, a literary biography must have a predominantly critical emphasis. vis mindre
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Winner 73

VærkÅr
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (Crip, 5) af Dennis Tyler2023
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature af Farah Jasmine Griffin2022
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir af Jenn Shapland2021
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading af Leah Price2020
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry af Imani Perry2019
Henry David Thoreau: A Life af Laura Dassow Walls2018
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life af Ruth Franklin2017
The Poetry of John Milton af Gordon Teskey2016
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities af James Turner2015
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 af Steven Moore2014
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures af Claudia L. Johnson2013
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich af Christopher B. Krebs2012
From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature af Randall Fuller2011
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II af V. A. Kolve2010
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade af Christopher Benfey2009
Henry James Goes to Paris af Peter Brooks2008
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line af George Hutchinson2007
Dickinson's Misery af Virginia Jackson2006
Shakespeare after All af Marjorie Garber2005
Emerson af Lawrence Buell2004
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland af R. F. Foster2003
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses af Susan Stewart2002
Transcendental Wordplay: America'S Romantic Punsters & Search af Michael West2001
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture af Leonard Barkan2000
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing af James Olney1999
The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises af Theodore Ziolkowski1998
The Title to the Poem af Anne Ferry1997
What Is Pastoral? af Paul Alpers1996
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 af Joseph Frank1995
The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story af John T. Irwin1994
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature af Eric J. Sundquist1993
Chaucer and the Subject of History af Lee Patterson1992
The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel af Richard D. Altick1991
Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy af Evelyn Barish1990
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present af Harold Bloom1989
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville af David S. Reynolds1988
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism af Leonard Barkan1987
Alexander Pope: A Life af Maynard Mack1986
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats af Peter M. Sacks1985
Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age, Vol. 3: Dean Swift (Volume 3) af Irvin Ehrenpreis1984
The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry af W. R. Johnson1983
The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers af Lawrence I. Lipking1982
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart af Robert Bernard Martin1981
The Creation of Nikolai Gogol af Donald Fanger1980
The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society af Robert Bechtold Heilman1979
Person, place, and thing in Henry James's novels af Charles Roberts Anderson1978
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 af Joseph Frank1977
T.S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet af Elisabeth Wintersteen Schneider1976
Young Thomas Hardy af Robert Gittings1975
Mandelstam af Clarence Brown1974
Kings, Beasts and Heroes. af Gwyn Jones1973
The Pound Era af Hugh Kenner1972
Politics in English Romantic Poetry af Carl Woodring1971
The Burden of the Past and the English Poet af Walter Jackson Bate1970
Shaw the Dramatist af Louis Crompton1969
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End af Barbara Herrnstein Smith1968
The American 1890s; life and times of a lost generation af Larzer Ziff1967
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster af Wilfred Stone1966
Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 af Geoffrey H. Hartman1965
John Keats af Walter Jackson Bate1964
Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne af Joan Webber1963
The Rhetoric of Fiction af Wayne C. Booth1962
Emily Dickinson's poetry; stairway of surprise af Charles Roberts Anderson1961
Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford Paperbacks, No. 149) af Reuben A. Brower1960
The idea of poetry in France; from Houdar de La Motte to Baudelaire af Margaret Gilman1959
Homer and the Heroic Tradition af Cedric H. Whitman1958
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 af Walter E. Houghton1957
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson af Walter Jackson Bate1956
The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century af Louis L. Martz1955
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition af Meyer H. Abrams1954
Dante's drama of the mind : a modern reading of the Purgatorio af Francis Fergusson1953
The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture af Jerome Hamilton Buckley1952
Studies in seventeenth-century poetic af Ruth Wallerstein1951

Shortlist 29

VærkÅr
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times af Azar Nafisi2023
What Is American Literature af Stavans2023
Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James af Jane F. Thrailkill2023
The Secret Life of Literature af Lisa Zunshine2023
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature af Farah Jasmine Griffin2022
Love’s Shadow af Paul A. Bove2022
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life af George Saunders2022
Orwell's Roses af Rebecca Solnit2022
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life af Heather Cass White2022
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir af Jenn Shapland2021
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man af Joshua Bennett2021
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man af Joshua Bennett2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form af Sianne Ngai2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form af Sianne Ngai2021
Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) af Namwali Serpell2021
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future af James Shapiro2021
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative af Jane Alison2020
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age af Leo Damrosch2020
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past af Lewis Hyde2020
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster af Gerard Passannante2020
Sharp af Michelle Dean2019
Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s af George Hutchinson2019
Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness af Jonathan Kramnick2019
Elements of Surprise af Vera Tobin2019
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History af Joseph North2018
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century af Jerome Charyn2017
Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists af Ross Posnock2017
Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination af Vaughn Rasberry2017
Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism af Alex Woloch2017

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