Background
Curran, Stuart Alan was born on August 3, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Lawrence Charles and Margaret Rachel (Dalton) Curran.
(Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Rom...)
Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Calling into question that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that the Romantic poets, far from being indifferent or hostile to popular forms of literature were actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit ideological value. Whether in their proccupation with fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to suit their own democratic, secular and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.
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Curran, Stuart Alan was born on August 3, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Lawrence Charles and Margaret Rachel (Dalton) Curran.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1963; postgraduate, Cornell Univercity, 1963-1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1967.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, 1967-1970; associate professor, University of Wisconsin, 1970-1974; professor, University of Pennsylvania, since 1974; department chairman English, University of Pennsylvania, 1977-1980. Visiting associate professor Johns Hopkins University, 1974.
(Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Rom...)
Member Modern Language Association, Keats-Shelley Association, Byron Society, Phi Beta Kappa.