Irvin Ehrenpreis

Background

Ehrenpreis, Irvin was born on June 9, 1920 in New York City. Son of Louis and Edith (Lipman) Ehrenpreis.

Education

Bachelor, City College of New York, 1938. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1944.

Docteur Honoris Causa, University Besançon, France, 1965.

Career

With department English Indiana University, 1945-1965, professor, 1961-1965. Professor English, University Virginia, from 1965, Commonwealth professor English, 1967-1975, Linden Kent professor English, from 1975. Visiting professor Brandeis University, 1961, Harvard Summer School, 1962, University Minnesota Summer School, 1960, University Washington Summer School, 1964, University Münster, Germany, summer 1983.

Beckman professor University California at Berkeley, spring 1978. Seminar leader Folger Institute, fall 1981. Visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford (England) University, 1981-1982.

Visiting research fellow Merton College, Oxford (England) University, 1968.

Achievements

• Irvin Ehrenpreis has been listed as a noteworthy Language educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The "types approach" to literature

    (This book, ""types approach" to literature", by Ehrenprei...)

  • The personality of Jonathan Swift

    (179 page blue cloth hardcover with red and blue spine, an...)

  • Literary Meaning and Augustan Values

    (Book by Ehrenpreis, Irvin)

  • Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen (The Beckman Lectures, 1978)
  • ACTS OF IMPLICATION Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope and Austen
  • FIELDING: \'TOM JONES\' (STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE-NO.23)
  • The Personality of Jonathan Swift

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.

Connections

Son of Louis and Edith (Lipman) E. m. Anne Willard Henry, August 19, 1961 (deceased 1978). 1 son, David Henry; married Mary Louise Kemp, 1983.

Father:

Louis Ehrenpreis

Mother:

Edith (Lipman) Ehrenpreis

Spouse:

Mary Louise Kemp

Spouse:

Anne Willard Henry