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Mahoney, John L. was born on February 4, 1928 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States.
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As the discourse of contemporary cultural studies brings questions of race, nationality, and gender to the center of critical attention nowadays, there is a strong sense that religious, or perhaps religious experience, should command the attention of the academic and wider reading community. Seeing into the Life of Things is a response to that need. By combining the theoretical and the practical, this book serves as both a pioneering scholarly contribution to a devleoping field and a valuable guide for those who read, reflect on, and discuss points of intersection of religion and literature. The contributors to this pioneering study represent a range of voices and viewpoints, some of them established leaders in their fields, others in the process of becoming new leaders. E. Dennis Taylor, Joseph Appleyard, Philip Rule, John Boyd, and Jane and Charles Rzepka work toward the development of a discourse that can take its place with discourses that have developed around a New Historicism and Feminism. Robert Kiely, Stephen Fix, Keven Van Anglen, J. Robert Barth, Richard Kearney, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Judith Wilt, John L. Mahoney, David Leigh, Melinda Ponder, John Anderson, and Michael Raiger offer more focused approaches to writers as varied as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Katherine Lee Bates, Flannery O'Connor, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Seamus Heaney and to special genres like spritual autobiography and film.
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William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of British Romantic Poetry, certainly had the longest career of the Romantics, one extending from his days as a schoolboy almost to the end of his life in 1850, from the Lyrical Ballads and descriptive poetry of 1790s to the late poetry of the 1840s. With this long career came a remarkable history of critical reception: from the reviews of his contemporaries in journals and magazines; to the major statements of Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, and others; to the amazing variety of books, essays, and theoretical approaches of the twentieth century. Although there have been a number of studies about the critical reception of Wordsworth's poetry and critical theory, Professor Mahoney's book is the first full-length study of how critics -- from the earliest reviewers to the major Victorian voices, to the enormous 20th-century response -- have approached the many facets of the great English Romantic's work. Mahoney does not aim primarily at following the course of Wordsworth's life and career, as many admirable and recent biographies have done, but rather follows the course of a critical reputation as it has evolved from the poet's earliest probes to the present day. Thus Wordsworth and the Critics offers an engaging narrative of the reputation of this most prominent of Romantic poets. Professor Mahoney's book offers an engaging narrative of the reputation of a poet. John L. Mahoney is Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College and has written extensively on Wordsworth and English Romanticism.
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Wordsworth: A Poetic Life is a new biography of the great father of British Romanticism. It is new in several ways, most notably in the way it approaches the life of the poet. Paying its proper respect to the classic lives of Wordsworth by Mary Moorman and Stephen Gill, it attempts to tell the story of the life through a more rigorous reading of key and representative works of the poet, through careful blending of life and poetry. Wordsworth offers the story of the literariness of the poet's life - childhood and adolescence in the Lake District, education at Cambridge, love and political radicalism in France, the long period of residence in Grasmere and Rydal, celebrity, and national and international recognition. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's career as it moves away from familiar theories of a Golden Decade of creativity and a period of long decline. The book also works closely and rigorously with Wordsworth's poetry as a method of dramatizing the essentially poetic character of the poet's life.
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Mahoney, John L. was born on February 4, 1928 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States.
AB, Boston College, 1950. AM, Boston College, 1952. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Boston College, 2003.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1957.
Instructor of English, Boston College, 1955-1959;
assistant professor of English, Boston College, 1959-1962;
associate professor, Boston College, 1962-1965;
professor, Boston College, since 1965;
Rattigan Professor of English, Boston College, since 1994;
department chairman, Boston College, 1962-1967, 69-70;
director Doctor of Philosophy program in English, Boston College, 1970-1975, 82-85;
member educational policy committee Graduate School Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 1985-1987. Visiting professor of English Harvard University summer school, 1963, 65, 67, 71, 80, 83, 86. Consultant for self-study Weston College Schools of Philosophy and Theology, Boston College, 1965.
Seminary leader programs for women, Boston College, Newton College, 1976, 78, 79. Member numerous academic committees and councils. Consultant, member English advising committee Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1968-1970.
Member academic county College of Advancing Studies, Boston College, since 1969, university corecurriculum development committee, 1991-1997. Board of trustees St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, commission on academic affairs, 1980-1986. Secretary board of trustees Katharine Gibbs School, Boston, 1982-1990.
Member of advisory board Jesuit Institute, Boston College, since 1987. Member Boston College Council the Arts, since 1997.
(William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of ...)
(As the discourse of contemporary cultural studies brings ...)
(This valuable anthology of works by major English Romanti...)
(This valuable anthology of works by major English Romanti...)
(Wordsworth: A Poetic Life is a new biography of the great...)
(Wordsworth: A Poetic Life is a new biography of the great...)
Active Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Massachusetts, delegate to Lexington Coun.Chs., 1968, chairman parish county, 1969-1972, member parish county, 1995-1998,vice chairman, 1996-1998, member religious education commission, 1974-1979, 90-93, seminary leader Christian Youth Education, 1969-1973, lector, since 1972. Member Archdiocese of Boston Common for Promotion of Parish Couns., 1969-1974, BenjaminMays Mentor Ahana program, since 1993. Member American Association of University Professors (president Boston College chapter 1962), Modern Language Association, N.E. Modern Language Association, American Society Eighteenth Century Studies, N.E. Society Eighteenth Century Studies, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association American, Keats-Shelley Association American, The Johnsonians, Alpha Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Kappa (Tchg. award Boston College 1994).