Background
Sell, Roger David was born on May 29, 1944 in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. Son of Arthur Philip and Freda Marion (Bushen) Sell.
(Ever since Edmund Wilson's Dickens: the Two Scrooges, one...)
Ever since Edmund Wilson's Dickens: the Two Scrooges, one of the hallmarks of Dickens criticism has been a disturbing kind of socio-psychological probing, with insights nowadays being drawn from poststructuralist and feminist thought. At the same time, however, some critics are beginning to rehabilitate 'old-fashioned' topics such as Dickens's characters, his comic plotting, and his relations with his readers - then and now. The New Casebook includes an extensive introduction which connects these trends to developments in literary theory. And of the hundreds of recent accounts of Great Expectations, twelve of the most representative are presented uncut or in substantial extracts.
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English language and literature educator
Sell, Roger David was born on May 29, 1944 in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. Son of Arthur Philip and Freda Marion (Bushen) Sell.
Bachelor with honors, Oxford (England) University, 1965. Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1969. BLitt, Oxford (England) University, 1970.
Doctor of Philosophy, Åbo (Finland) Akademi University, 1974.
Lecturer English, Uppsala (Sweden) U., 1967-1968, 69-71;
senior lecturer English, Åbo Akademi U., 1971-1986;
Professor of English language and literature, Åbo Akademi U., since 1987;
dean, Åbo Akademi U., since 1996;
Professor of English literature, Gothenburg (Sweden) U., 1984-1987. Member Humanities Commission, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1993. Visiting scholar University of Virginia, 1978-1979, Wolfson College, Cambridge, England, 1983.
Docent Helsinki (Finland) U., since 1988. Director Abo-Turku British Studies Center, Finland, since 1994.
(Ever since Edmund Wilson's Dickens: the Two Scrooges, one...)
Member FILLM (assistant secretary 1990-1996, vice president since 1996), The Penn Club.
Married Christina Waldemarsdotter Lindquist, June 28, 1968. Children: Catherine Johanna, Charlotta Christina, Christopher Philip.