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The Aesthetic Doctrine of Montesquieu: Its Application in His Writings. Dissertation
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Edwin Preston Dargan was a Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago and Balzac scholar.
Background
Edwin P. Dargan was born on September 7, 1879, in Barboursville, Virginia, the eldest of five children of Edwin Charles Dargan and Lucy Augusta Graves. His mother was a Virginian, born near Barboursville. His father was a South Carolinian whose forebears had come from Ireland in the eighteenth century; a clergyman and writer, he was pastor of several Virginia parishes before becoming professor of homiletics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Kentucky) in 1892.
One of Preston Dargan's brothers, Henry McCune, also followed a scholarly career, becoming professor of English at Dartmouth College.
Education
After attending public schools in Charleston, South Carolina, and Louisville, Dargan entered Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, from which he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899. Three years of graduate study at the University of Virginia followed.
In 1902 - 1903 Dargan studied in Berlin, Rome, and Paris, and in 1906 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Johns Hopkins University. His doctoral dissertation, The Asthetic Doctrine of Montesquieu (1907), was as notable for its artistic vitality as for its sound scholarship, a combination of qualities evident throughout Dargan's work.
Career
From 1906 to 1910 Dargan was instructor and adjunct professor in Romance languages at the University of Virginia. In 1910 he became assistant professor of French at the University of California at Berkeley, publishing in the same year Hylas and Other Poems and a brilliant essay on Sully Prudhomme in a memorial volume honoring his former teacher at Johns Hopkins, A. Marshall Elliott.
His essay led to a teaching appointment in 1911 at the University of Chicago, where Dargan remained until his death.
Dargan's career was marked by energy and tenacity of purpose, despite a frail physique and frequent illness. He was constantly active in scholarly research, especially in the fields of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature. Under his leadership, the University of Chicago became the American center of Balzac research. He was instrumental in acquiring for the university in 1923 the Croue collection of early and first editions of Balzac. This permitted intensive study of the massive revisions in text and plan of the Comedie Humaine and led to the University of Chicago Studies in Balzac, of which Dargan was editor and guiding spirit. Of the carefully organized project, designed to demonstrate Balzac's role as the fountainhead of the nineteenth-century social novel, three volumes were published before his death and a fourth and final volume in 1942. Of Dargan's Honoré de Balzac, a Force of Nature (1932), published independently of the series, his fellow scholar Christian Gauss commented: "No one has ever put Balzac in his high place in briefer compass or in a more interesting manner. "
In addition to numerous papers and reviews, Dargan also wrote a biography, Anatole France, 1844 - 1896 (1937), and, with William A. Nitze, a college text, A History of French Literature from the Earliest Times to the Great War (1922; rev. eds. , 1927, 1938). Dargan's enthusiasm and exceptional knowledge of his subject made him an inspiring teacher, and he was particularly noted for his success with graduate students.
Dargan also impressed upon students and colleagues the importance of symmetry and organization in literature but decried the kind of "ascetic" scholarship which lost sight of the primary function of literature, its enjoyment. Edwin P. Dargan died on December 13, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, of cancer and was buried there at Oak Woods Cemetery.
Achievements
Edwin Preston Dargan is remembered as professor of Romance Languages and Literature, who was constantly active in scholarly research, especially in the fields of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature. Under his leadership, the University of Chicago became the American center of Balzac research. In addition, Dargan was instrumental in acquiring for the university in 1923 the Croue collection of early and first editions of Balzac.
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Views
Quotations:
"The one key to literary treasures is not erudition but sympathy. "
Personality
Edwin P. Dargan was an energetic and tenacious person, despite a frail physique and frequent illness.
Quotes from others about the person
Dargan, in the words of one of his colleagues, combined the imagination of the poet with the exacting probity of the scholar. His complex mind found diversion in the solving of cryptograms, crossword puzzles, and anagrams and the reading of mystery novels.
Connections
On June 28, 1910, at Cannes, France, Edwin P. Dargan married Esterelle Vere Riddett, daughter of an English banker of that city. The couple had three daughters: Avise Ethel, Rosamund Vere, and Marjorie.
