Background
Weinbrot, Howard David was born on May 14, 1936 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Rose (Shapiro) Weinbrot.
( Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period ...)
Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the "Augustan" age of English literature, a time in which classical Augustan ideals provided a main source of inspiration. Scholars have held that British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century considered Augustus Caesar to be the model of the wise ruler who enabled political, literary, and moral wisdom to flourish. This book shows on the contrary that classical standards, though often invoked, were often rejected by many informed citizens and writers of the day. Anti-Augustan sentiment consolidated by the 1730s, when both Whig and Tory, court and country, viewed Augustus as the enemy of the mixed and balanced constitution that was responsible for British liberty. Professor Weinbrot focuses in particular on literature and its classical backgrounds, reinterpreting major works by Pope and Gibbon. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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( Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Rom...)
Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander Pope as a Horatian satirist in a Horatian age. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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(Howard D. Weinbrot's "Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays o...)
Howard D. Weinbrot's "Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics" collects earlier and new essays on Johnson's varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson's uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader's role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely in-human view of skepticism. It examines the ways in which Johnson's reputation as a critic and biographer was challenged and affirmed after his death, and it demonstrates that Johnson was known and admired in eighteenth-century France until Boswell's portrait of Mr. Oddity replaced Dictionary Johnson. The book concludes with four essays concerning the vexed controversy regarding Johnson and Jacobitism and Johnson's political affiliation in Hanoverian Britain. Aspects of Samuel Johnson consolidates old ground and breaks new ground during the 250th anniversary of the appearance of his "Dictionary of the English Language". Howard D. Weinbrot is Ricardo Quintana Professor of English and William Freeman Vilas Research Professor in the College of Letters and Science, the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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( Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from anti...)
Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from antiquity through the early modern era in Europe and up to the present, the genre often has resisted precise definition and has evoked critical controversy. In this magisterial work, Howard D. Weinbrot offers a new and lucid account of this complex literary category. He argues that in the wake of twentieth-century critics, notably Frye and Bakhtin, Menippean satire has been too broadly associated with "philosophic ideas" expressed in dialogic voices or languages. He proposes instead a set of more rigorous but still fluid criteria incorporating several key elements: the use of varied historical periods, voices, languages, or genres that challenge a threatening orthodoxy; an outcome either of failure and the satirist's renewed anger or of resistance without counter-orthodoxy; and the use of one or more of several identified rhetorical devices. He then explores in detail how these elements of Menippean satire combine and operate in the literatures of classical Rome and early modern France and England, considering major texts by Varro, Petronius, Lucian, Swift, Boileau, Pope, and Richardson.
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(Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most imp...)
Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most important essays on Restoration and eighteenth-century British satire. Divided into sections on 'contexts' and 'texts', the essays range widely and deeply across the spectrum of satiric kinds, satirists, satires, and scholarly and critical problems. In 'Contexts', Professor Weinbrot discusses the pattern of formal verse satire of blame and praise popularized by Dryden in 1693 and influential throughout the next century, challenges the traditional view that Hprace and 'Augustanism' define eighteenth-century satire, and focuses on the vexed question of whether there was indeed a 'persona' or theory of masking at work in eighteenth-century satire. In 'Texts' he deals with several of the most important verse satirists and satires of the period and closely analyses them within their historical and artistic frameworks. Clearly written, learned, and often witty, this book is committed to critical inquiry that respects the integrity of its texts. It also emphasized the breadth of context that enriches our understanding of satire and the relationships among the nurturing culture, the producing poet, the poem producers, and the poem as received in its age.
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Weinbrot, Howard David was born on May 14, 1936 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Rose (Shapiro) Weinbrot.
Bachelor, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1958; Master of Arts with honors (Woodrow Wilson fellow 1959, graduate fellow 1959-1963), University of Chicago, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1963.
Teaching fellow, University of Chicago, 1962-1963; instructor English, Yale University, 1963-1966; assistant professor, then associate professor, University of California, Riverside, 1966-1969; member of faculty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1969; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972-1984; Ricardo Quintana professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1984-1987; Vilas professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1987. Andrew Mellon visiting professor Institute Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, 1993-1994.
( Despite the long history of Menippean satire, from anti...)
( Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Rom...)
(Literary Studies, Humor, Wit, Sociology)
( Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period ...)
(Howard D. Weinbrot's "Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays o...)
(Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most imp...)
(Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most imp...)
Member American Society 18th Century Studies (member editorial board 1977-1980, executive committee 96-99), International Society 18th Century Studies University of California at Los Angeles (planning committee 2003), Johnsonians, Johnson Society (secretary-treasurer 1970-1975, vice president 2000-2001, president 2002-2003, 2009-2010), Midwest American Society Eighteenth Century Studies, Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies.
Married Dawn Simon.