Background
Miskimin, Alice S. was born on February 20, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
(For Elizabethans, modern English literary history began w...)
For Elizabethans, modern English literary history began with Chaucer. Looking back, they say him as a noble primitive, a genius in spite of the barbarity of his age and language. In this book, Alice Miskimin attempts a new kind of comparative literary history, combining both historical perspective and critical close reading to reexamine "England's Homer" in the light of the two-hundred year period of transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. A survey of the emergence of the Chaucer canon from manuscript to print shows how progressive corruption changed the texts and how the introduction of apocryphal poems into the early editions of Chaucer's published Works affected the Renaissance image of the "Father of English Poetry." The history of Troilus and Criseyde, in particular, from its medieval origins in Boccaccio and Chaucer to the Renaissance imitations of Henryson, Shakespeare, and Dryden, is a paradigm of literary metamorphosis. Other perspectives on the evolution of Chaucer's poetry are found in Spenser's deliberate reinterpretations (in The Faerie Queene and The Shepherd's Calendar) and in the Elizabethans' apprehension of the poet's personae-the Canterbury pilgrim the dreamer of the vision poems, the historian of Troilus and Criseyde. The Renaissance Chaucer is a skillful recreation of Chaucer as he appeared to Elizabethan authors. It is a provocative and a successful attempt to get beyond simple influence in literary and cultural history.
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Miskimin, Alice S. was born on February 20, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Bachelor, Vassar College, 1953. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1964.
Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1982.
Scholl v. Chuang Hui Marine Corporation, Limited. 646 F.Supp. 137 (Doctorate.Conn. 1986) (admiralty).Worked at Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, Professional Corporation (New Haven, Connecticut) specializing in General Trial and Appellate Practice in all Courts. Personal Injury, Criminal, Constitutional, Unfair Competition, Antitrust, Securities, Environmental, Employment, Real Estate, Construction and Family Law Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1982, Connecticut and United States.
District Court, District of Connecticut.
1983, United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Peter Cooper Fellow. Town Attorney, Town of Woodbridge, 1991.
Attorney State Trial Referee, 1991. Member, Board of Directors and Vice President, Connecticut Bar Foundation, 1991.
Member, Board of Directors and Legal Counsel, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985.
Member, Board of Directors and Legal Counsel, East Rock Institute, 1985. Member, Board of Editors, Connecticut Bar Journal. Member: New Haven County, Connecticut (Member, Federal Practice Committee, 1986.
Committee on Professional Ethics, 1991) and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations.
Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
In 1947, Howard A. Jacobs joined the law practice of his father, Israel J. Jacobs, who began his law practice in New Haven in 1918. The present firm, Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, Professional Corporation, has grown to 18 lawyers, with offices occupying all four floors of two joined and restored red brick townhouses, within walking distance of both the state and federal court houses.
The firm concentrates almost entirely on litigation.
lieutenant represents plaintiffs in all types of personal injury claims, including those occurring through medical malpractice and product liability. lieutenant represents people in the defense of all types of criminal charges. lieutenant also represents people in family law litigation, in employment discrimination and wrongful discharge matters, and in other civil disputes.
Increasingly during the last two decades, the firm has represented businesses in a broad range of civil and criminal disputes, including antitrust and business torts, securities litigation, breach of contract, employment, franchise and environmental litigation as well as civil and criminal RICO matters.
The firm"s practice is statewide in both state and federal courts. Its resources include a law library containing more than 7,000 volumes, computerized legal research and a staff of seven legal assistants and an investigator.
(For Elizabethans, modern English literary history began w...)
Member, Board of Directors and Vice President, Connecticut Bar Foundation, 1991. Member, Board of Directors and Legal Counsel, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985. Member, Board of Directors and Legal Counsel, East Rock Institute, 1985.
Member, Board of Editors, Connecticut Bar Journal.
Member: New Haven County, Connecticut (Member, Federal Practice Committee, 1986. Committee on Professional Ethics, 1991) and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations.
Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Daughter of Otto Gustav and Alice Moore (Coy) Schwenk. Divorced; children: Sidonie Ann Miskimin Clauss, Matthew Charles.