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Bowers, Fredson Thayer was born on April 25, 1905 in New Haven.
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Reprint of the first edition. With an Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. One of the indisputable classics of 20th-century scholarship, Bowers's work is one of the standard guides on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been much activity in descriptive bibliography since then, Principles still holds its place as the central book to which those engaged in bibliographical work continually return.
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Living in the shadow of the most brilliant period in English theater, many Jacobean and Caroline dramatists were deeply influenced by their famous Elizabethan predecessors, including Shakespeare and Johnson. Their writings, which offer as much diversity as those of their earlier cousins, deserve study. Covering the gamut of drama and comedy, and including historical and religious topics, the playwrights of the period, represented in the 26 profiles in this DLB volume, offer a rich tapestry of drama. Their work provides us with an entertaining and enlightening glimpse into the past. 26 entries include : Thomas Campion, Sir William Davenant, Robert Davenport, Nathan Field, Thomas Killigrew, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Nabbes, William Rowley and John Webster.
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The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer, happily occupied in his travel drudgery, has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them. Professor Bowers advances to the edge of this gulf and says several forceful things across it; they turn out to be important and interesting, though occasionally scathing. The first chapter reminds us that the literary critic can only criticise with confidence when the textual critic has established what the author wrote; Professor Bowers indicates how very much has yet to be done. The second chapter takes a particular case, Walt Whitman's copy' for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, and shows how the bibliographer can, by ingenious but rigorous deduction, give an insight into the growth of an author's conception of the nature and aim of his work. The other two lectures, on Shakespeare and other early dramatic texts, will show non-specialists the striking advances in editorial technique, and the growth of standards of scholarship in these studies.
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Bowers, Fredson Thayer was born on April 25, 1905 in New Haven.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1925. Doctor of Letters, Brown University, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1934.
Doctor of Letters, Clark University, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Chicago, 1973.
Instructor English, tutor modern languages, Harvard University, Boston, 1926-1936;
instructor English, Princeton University, 1936-1938;
assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1938-1946;
associate professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1946-1948;
Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1948-1950;
professorial lecturer English,, University of Chicago, 1950-1965;
department chairman, University of Chicago, 1961-1968;
Linden Kent professor Literature, University of Chicago, 1968-1975;
professor emeritus, Chicago, from 1975;
dean faculty arts science, University of Chicago, 1968-1969. Fulbright fellow advanced research, United Kingdom, 1952-1953. Sanders reader in bibliography Cambridge (England) University, 1958, James Lyell reader in bibliography University of Oxford, 1959.
Guggenheim fellow, 1958-1959, 71-72. Regional chairman Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1956-1959. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1962-1963.
Visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford, 1972, 74. Resident Villa Serbelloni Research and Conference Center, 1970, 72. Fellow Commoner Churchill College, Cambridge, 1975.
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Served as Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945, Washington. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Correspondent fellow British Academy.
Member Son of Atlantic Modern Language Association (president 1969), Modern Language Association (executive council 1963-1967), Bibliog Society (Gold Medal 1968), London, Bibliographical Society of America, of University Virginia, of Oxford, Society for Textual Scholarship (president 1985). Clubs: Elizabethan (Yale University).
Son of Fredson Eugene and Hattie (Quigley) B. Married Hyacinth Sutphen, November 11., 1924. Children: Fredson, Joan Stout, Stephen, Peter.
Married Nancy Hale, March 16, 1942.