Anne F. Janowitz

Education

Anne studied at Reed College and received a Bachelor of Arts. She also studied at Stanford University and finished it with Master of Arts and Ph.D.

Career

Anne Janowitz was an English instructor at the University of Warwick. She worked with World Education Group as the director of the Humanities Research Centre.

She also is a writer. She wrote England’s Ruins: Poetic Purpose and the National Landscape in 1981. Thus, writing in Modern Language Review, David Worrall noted that “Janowitz’s cultural history is derived from Martin Wiener, Benedict Anderson, and Ernest Gellner, shot through with highly eclectic literary criticism and theory.” In her analysis, Janowitz discusses Old English poetry, modem poetry, the human as a ruin, and the ruinous state of inner-city London. John Barrell deemed the work “remarkable,” adding that the chapter on Wordsworth “is one of the best things written on his politics.” Asserting that Janowitz “persuasively” argued her thesis, Worrall concluded that “England’s Ruins is extremely accomplished: dismayingly broad-minded, witheringly polished, enviably up-to-date, and steadfast to its strikingly coherent argument.”

Her current projects are readingpartisanreview1930s.com. and Henry James's Suitcase.

Achievements

• Anne Janowitz is well-known mainly as an educator and writer. She does research in the history of literature, the modernist tradition of the sublime, and in writing about family networks. Her most famous works are England’s Ruins: Poetic Purpose and the National Landscape, Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition and Unamerican Activities: The Campaign against the Underground Press.

Works

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  • England's Ruins: Poetic Purpose and the National Landscape

    ("England's ruins" examines the ruin poem tradition, from ...)

    1990
  • Unamerican Activities: The Campaign Against the Underground Press

    (Geoffrey Rips, a coordinator of PEN American Center Freed...)

    1981
  • Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition

    (This book examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in the ...)

    1998

Connections

coworker:

Nancy J. Peters

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 181