Background
Richard J. Gray was born on the 5 of January 1944 in the United Kingdom, the son of George Ernest and Helen (Cox) Gray.
Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
Richard attended Catharine's College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Gray earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.
Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
Richard attended Catharine's College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Gray earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.
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1973
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1977
(This book is a major reassessment of an American region a...)
This book is a major reassessment of an American region and a regional consciousness. Concentrating on moments of crisis in Southern history, as well as on major literary figures, Richard Gray shows how generations of Southerners have been engaged in 'writing the South', in reinventing their place even as they describe it.
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1986
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A wide-ranging account of the development of American poetry from the early years of this century. It examines the historical and cultural forces that have helped to shape it, setting American poetry within its wider context to examine those qualities that make it both specifically 'modern' and definitively 'American'.
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1990
(A Brief History of American Literature offers students an...)
A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.
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1990
(In this major reassessment, Richard Gray uses and develop...)
In this major reassessment, Richard Gray uses and develops recent theories about the relationship between writing and historical experience, language and social change, to draw a brilliantly detailed portrait of the place and times Faulkner inhabited. Attending closely to each of the novels, Gray shows how they brim with an often undisclosed biography that is at once personal and cultural.
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1994
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In this major reassessment of the American South and its literature, Richard Gray explores the idea of regionalism by focusing on those writers whose relationship with the South has been particularly problematical.
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2000
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A History of American Literature is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available on the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.
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2003
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2007
(After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examinat...)
After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature.
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2011
(A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exp...)
A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.
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2015
Richard J. Gray was born on the 5 of January 1944 in the United Kingdom, the son of George Ernest and Helen (Cox) Gray.
Richard attended Catharine's College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.
Richard Gray started his career as a senior resident scholar at St. Catharine's College in 1966-67. Two years later he joined the University of Essex where he worked as a lecturer at first until 1976, a senior lecturer in 1976-1980, then a reader in 1981. In 1990 Gray became a professor of literature there, the position he held until 2015, becoming Emeritus Professor. That same year Richard became an associate editor for the Journal of American Studies, being promoted to editor in 1997.
He also was a member of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in 1979. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at several universities in the United States, including Georgia and the University of South Carolina where he served as a Robert E. McNair visiting professor in 1993.
Gray’s first book The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South was published in 1977. He also wrote American Poetry of the Twentieth Century in 1990, The Life of William Faulkner in 1994, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region in 1997, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problem of Regionalism in 2000, A History of American Literature” in 2003, a revised and updated edition of which was published in 2012.
In 2011, Richard published A Brief History of American Literature and After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11. His latest book A History of American Poetry came out in 2015.
Richard has also edited two anthologies of American poetry and collections of essays on American fiction and Robert Penn Warren. He has written a number of articles on American prose and poetry of the last two centuries and has contributed essays to books on Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, the American South, and American Studies.
Richard Gray is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Notes, and Queries, and the Modern Language Review, Editor of the Journal of American Studies and a Consulting Editor to American Literary History. He is a regular broadcaster for the BBC.
Richard Gray is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography. His History of American Literature is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.
Richard has received many awards for his work and co-organised conferences that include an international colloquium on the American South, held in Vienna and funded by the Austrian and British Academies (the proceedings were published as Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe-Europe in the American South).
In 2016 Gray was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Professorship. Gray’s Problems of Regionalism was nominated for the Robert Penn Warren, Rene Wellek and Lillian Hellman awards.
(In this major reassessment, Richard Gray uses and develop...)
1994(In this major reassessment of the American South and its ...)
2000(A Brief History of American Literature offers students an...)
1990(A History of American Literature is the most up-to-date a...)
2003(A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exp...)
2015(After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examinat...)
2011(A wide-ranging account of the development of American poe...)
1990(This book is a major reassessment of an American region a...)
1986Richard Gray was a member of the British Association for American Studies.
Richard Gray was married to Joyce Mary, but they divorced later. Currently, he is married to Sheona Catherine. He has four children, Catharine Emma and Ben Thomas from the first marriage, Jessica Vivien and Jack Ewan George from the second one.
