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Erickson, Robert Allen was born on April 1, 1940 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Son of Allen Gerald and Ruth Dorothy (Dahl) Erickson.
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The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 (New Cultural Studies)
( In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Ha...)
In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a feminized body; in Paradise Lost, it is through the protracted rape and violation of Eve's heart that the Fall of Man occurs; nearly a century later Samuel Richardson's Clarissa would present a no less forceful but far more feminist and heroic narrative of the heart's power. Examining these other—and mostly English-literary, medical, religious, and philosophical texts, Erickson uncovers two ruling clusters of metaphors: one associating the heart with language, writing, and thought, the other with sex, passion, and gender. Charting the tension between the two, he offers a brilliant new reading of one of the central symbols in Western culture.
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(Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne)) Author: Robert A. Erickson published on (December, 1987)
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Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in the Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century)
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Robert Allen Erickson
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Robert Allen Erickson, American English literature educator. Visiting scholar Fulbright Senior fellow, Finland, 1999—2000; Augustus Howe Buck scholarship, Boston University, 1958-1960, Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1962-1963, Fulbright fellow, United States Government, 1965-1966. Member American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Education
AB, Boston University, 1962; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1966.
Career
Assistant instructor in English, Yale University, New Haven, 1965; assistant professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966-1973; lecturer in English with security, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-1977; associate professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977-1985; Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1985.
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The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 (New Cultural Studies)
( In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Ha...)
- Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne) (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century) by Robert A. Erickson (1987-12-31)
- (Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne)) Author: Robert A. Erickson published on (December, 1987)
- Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in the Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century)
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The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750 (New Cultural Studies)
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Member American Association of University Professors, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.
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Married Liisa Raatikainen, November 21, 1966. Children: Martin, Stephen, Annaliisa.
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Visiting scholar Fulbright Senior fellow, Finland, 1999—2000. Augustus Howe Buck scholarship, Boston University, 1958-1960, Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1962-1963, Fulbright fellow, United States Government, 1965-1966.Visiting scholar Fulbright Senior fellow, Finland, 1999—2000. Augustus Howe Buck scholarship, Boston University, 1958-1960, Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1962-1963, Fulbright fellow, United States Government, 1965-1966.