Background
Stewart, Garrett was born on January 5, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Gordon Eldwin and Rosemary Stewart.
( "Ready now, reader? Easy then. That should put you in t...)
"Ready now, reader? Easy then. That should put you in the right historical frame of mind, put you in mind of the right historical frame. For it did seem easier then, certainly more relaxed. Like the addressed and otherwise rendered nineteenth-century reader who is my subject of study, you are invited to take it slow while we back our way into the last century. We do so by moving from an unexpected modernist send-up of Victorian direct address, an early twist of phrase in E. M. Forster's 1907 The Longest Journey, to the underlying aesthetic of classic realism on which even this one rhetorical irony is by no means intended to pull the plug. On the way back to the nineteenth century, certain realist assumptions help mark out our course."--from Dear Reader With the "great tradition" from Austen through Dickens and Eliot to Hardy read here for the first time alongside the non-canonical best-sellers of the period, we get a revised picture of an evolving readership narrated rather than merely implied, the mass audience conscripted, written with, figured in. Redirecting response aesthetics away from the a priori reader function toward this reader figure, Garrett Stewart's Dear Reader intercepts two tendencies in the recent criticism of fiction: the blanket audience determinations of ideological critique and the thinness of historicizing discourse analysis when divorced from literary history's own discursive field.
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Stewart, Garrett was born on January 5, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Gordon Eldwin and Rosemary Stewart.
Bachelor, University of Southern California, 1967; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1971.
Assistant Professor of English, Boston University, 1971-1976; associate professor, then Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976-1993; James O. Freedman professor letters, U. Iowa, Iowa City, since 1993.
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Member Modern Language Association (publications committee since 1996).
Married Natasa Durovicová, August 11, 1985. Children: Ian Durovic, Renata Durovic.