Background
Helgerson, Richard was born on August 22, 1940 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Donald Theodore and Viola Dolores (Huss) Helgerson.
( In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclai...)
In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535 from the neighborhood of ruined Carthage in North Africa, Richard Helgerson examines how the companionship of language and empire played itself out more generally in the "new poetry" of sixteenth-century Europe. Along with his friend Juan Boscán, Garcilaso was one of the great pioneers of that poetry, radically reforming Spanish verse in imitation of modern Italian and ancient Roman models. As the century progressed, similar projects were undertaken in France by Ronsard and du Bellay, in Portugal by Camões, and in England by Sidney and Spenser. And wherever the new poetry emerged, it was prompted by a sense that imperial ambition—the quest to be in the present what Rome had been in the past—required a vernacular poetry comparable to the poetry of Rome. But, as Helgerson shows, the new poetry had other commitments than to empire. Though imperial ambition looms large in Garcilaso's sonnet and others, by the end of the poem Garcilaso identifies not with Rome but with the Carthaginian queen Dido, one of empire's legendary victims. And with this startling shift, which has its counterpart in poems from all over Europe, comes one of the most important departures the poem makes from its apparent imperial agenda. Addressing these rival concerns as they arise in a single sonnet, Richard Helgerson provides a masterful and multifaceted image of one of the most vital episodes in European literary history.
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(A major study defining the distinctively Renaissance care...)
A major study defining the distinctively Renaissance career patterns of three major English writers - Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton A superb book that all scholars of English Renaissance literature should read.
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( Shakespeare, Vermeer, Lope de Vega, Molière, and Didero...)
Shakespeare, Vermeer, Lope de Vega, Molière, and Diderot dont usually keep company with one another. But in this acclaimed book, Richard Helgerson shows that each contributed to a common project of great significance: the artistic promotion of the middle-class home. In a study that stretches over two centuries, Helgerson looks beneath European drama and painting to reveal an unexpected prehistory of modern domesticity.
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( What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesia...)
What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesiastical polemics and narratives of overseas exploration to do with one another? By most accounts, very little. They belong to different genres and have been appropriated by scholars in different disciplines. But, as Richard Helgerson shows in this ambitious and wide-ranging study, all were part of an extraordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century enterprise: the project of making England.
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Helgerson, Richard was born on August 22, 1940 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Donald Theodore and Viola Dolores (Huss) Helgerson.
Bachelor, University of California, Riverside, 1963; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1970.
Professor of English, College Notre-Dame d'Afrique, Atakpamé, Togo, 1964-1966;
assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970-1976;
associate professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976-1982;
chair department English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989-1993;
Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1982;
faculty research lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1998. Visiting professor California Institute Technology, Pasadena, 1987-1988. Chair Huntington (California) Library.
Research Review, 1986-1987. Faculty research lecturer University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998.
(A major study defining the distinctively Renaissance care...)
( What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesia...)
( In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclai...)
( Shakespeare, Vermeer, Lope de Vega, Molière, and Didero...)
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Member Modern Language Association (executive committee English renaissance division 1988-1992), North America Conference on British Studies, Renaissance Society of America, Spenser Society of America (president 1988), Shakespeare Association American, Western Humanities Conference (executive committee 1988-1991).
Married Marie-Christine David, June 8, 1967. 1 child, Jessica.