Background
Victor Lams was born on the 24th of April, 1935 in Warren, Minnesota, United States, the son of Victor J. and Susan (De Blouw) Lams.
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1960
4001 W McNichols Rd, Detroit, MI 48221, United States
Victor Lams studied at the University of Detroit where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 and a Master of Arts degree in 1960 from it.
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1965
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Victor Lams attended Northwestern University where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965.
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1960
4001 W McNichols Rd, Detroit, MI 48221, United States
Victor Lams studied at the University of Detroit where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 and a Master of Arts degree in 1960 from it.
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1965
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Victor Lams attended Northwestern University where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965.
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Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in Clarissa
(Samuel Richardson's highly acclaimed Clarissa, commonly r...)
Samuel Richardson's highly acclaimed Clarissa, commonly read as a courtship novel, is, in fact, a story about the transaction between Robert Lovelace, a pathological narcissist, and Clarissa Harlowe, his victim, whom he idealizes, yet is compelled to destroy. Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in 'Clarissa' shows the narcissistic self-structure that explains Lovelace's anger and need for revenge. It shows, too, the process by which, after being raped, Clarissa reconstructs her self through penitential mourning and deepens her Christian understanding by abandoning her de facto Pelagianism when her own experience of evil provides empirical evidence for Original Sin.
https://www.amazon.ca/Anger-Guilt-Psychology-Self-Clarissa/dp/0820441600
1999
Clarissa's Narrators
(Challenging the view that Samuel Richardson's eighteenth-...)
Challenging the view that Samuel Richardson's eighteenth-century epistolary novel Clarissa is a shapeless sequence of letters, this book argues that the novel has an action structure consisting of five act-like movements that emerge from the round robin transfer of narrative dominance: from the interiorizing drama enacted on the epistolary stage first by Clarissa’s, then by Lovelace’s self-reflections on just-past events, to Belford’s more conventionally novelistic other-reflective narrative that ends the history. This book contrasts Clarissa’s use of soliloquy to achieve self-understanding with Lovelace’s employment of dramatic monologue to enable self-deception. Finally, Miss Howe’s and Belford’s performances in epistolary friendship are evaluated.
https://www.amazon.com/Clarissas-Narrators-Victor-J-Lams/dp/0820451622
2001
Newman’s Anglican Georgic: Parochial Sermons
(Newman’s Anglican Georgic offers moral reflections on hum...)
Newman’s Anglican Georgic offers moral reflections on human conduct in light of human possibility and addresses the existence, intervention, and benign or hostile will of the gods. As this book shows, Newman is equally concerned to embolden his audience for the practice of authentic Christianity and to warn them against the age’s schismatic preference for private religious emotion over revealed doctrine.
https://www.amazon.com/Newmans-Anglican-Georgic-Parochial-Sermons/dp/0820470929
2004
Newman's Visionary Georgic: A Reading of Parochial Sermons
(Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman’s Paroc...)
Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman’s Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the visionary georgic, a subset of the genre whose exemplars include Lucretius’ De rerum natura and Wordsworth’s The Prelude. Newman’s visionary georgic defends Christian revelation against the rationalistic subjectivism that tended to displace religious faith by Wordsworthian self-exploration, leading to the Victorian redefinition of literature as secular scripture. Subjects discussed include Newman’s relations with readers, his sermonic rhetoric, and his analysis of doctrines celebrated in the Church’s liturgy.
https://www.amazon.com/Newmans-Visionary-Georgic-Reading-Parochial/dp/0820463779
2006
The Rhetoric of Newman’s Apologia pro Catholica, 1845-1864
(Focusing upon the arguments Newman uses to define Catholi...)
Focusing upon the arguments Newman uses to define Catholicism against the hostility of English protestants, this book is a reader’s guide to the books Newman published soon after his own conversion: Mixed Congregations; Difficulties of Anglicans; Present Position of Catholics, and his two novels. While the arguments advanced in Difficulties of Anglicans and Present Position of Catholics are confrontationally direct, his novels Loss and Gain and Callista respond to the attacks of Elizabeth Harris’ From Oxford to Rome and Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia by the indirection which typifies Newman’s fictional rhetoric.
https://www.amazon.com/Rhetoric-Newmans-Apologia-Catholica-1845-1864/dp/1433100150
2007
Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide
(Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide is t...)
Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide is the first book-length study of Davies’s best work: The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus. In The Rebel Angels, Maria and Darcourt alternate in narrating the novel’s theme (obsession) before escaping from its grip by their mutual assistance, while other characters are less fortunate. What’s Bred in the Bone narrates the artistic development of Canadian painter Francis Cornish, which is crowned by his stunning Marriage at Cana, an iconographic presentation of his personal myth; a color reproduction of Bronzino’s Allegory exemplifies their stylistic kinship. While The Lyre of Orpheus is ostensibly focused on the completion and staging of an unfinished Hoffmann opera, it narrates the ameliorative personal development of the characters who interact during that project.
https://www.amazon.com/Robertson-Daviess-Cornish-Trilogy-Readers/dp/1433102285
2008
Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels
(Completing the survey begun in Lams’ Cornish Trilogy volu...)
Completing the survey begun in Lams’ Cornish Trilogy volume, Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels discusses the Salterton and Deptford trilogies along with Davies’ last two novels, Murther & Walking Spirits, and The Cunning Man. The apprentice effort Tempest-Tost and the journeyman’s success Leaven of Malice were followed by Davies’ first genuinely fine novel, A Mixture of Frailties, the story of a talented Salterton girl who becomes a world-famous soprano. The Deptford trilogy is discussed in terms of Northrop Frye’s «confession» form as it appears in Fifth Business, and in variations of that form in The Manticore and World of Wonders.
https://www.amazon.com/Aspects-Robertson-Davies-Novels-Victor/dp/1433105446
2009
«The Ethos of Britain»: Delderfieldʼs Swann Trilogy
(The novelist R. F. Delderfield’s trilogy of English life ...)
The novelist R. F. Delderfield’s trilogy of English life in the second half of the nineteenth century portrays the social history of Adam Swann and his family, energetic people of differing talents and tempers involved in a kaleidoscopic range of social engagements. Born into a military family but shaken by his army experience in India, Adam returns to civilian life in England and creates an innovative goods-hauling service across the country. Adam’s ten children are also innovators who provide the intellectual activity expressed by the phrase “The Ethos of Britain”. In the novels a whole country is energized by a handful of individuals who recognize and set out to solve a wide range of social problems such as, teenage girls being abducted into continental brothels, miners killed or maimed by underground hazards, factory hands enduring long hours tending unsafe machinery, and elderly couples evicted from their homes, separated, and starved.
https://www.amazon.com/Ethos-Britain%C2%BB-Delderfield%CA%BCs-Swann-Trilogy/dp/1433118734
2012
R. F. Delderfield’s Novels as Cultural History: A Reader’s Companion
(This book begins with a survey of R. F. Delderfield’s kno...)
This book begins with a survey of R. F. Delderfield’s knowledge of Napoleonic history as revealed in his three Napoleonic-era novels. Two commentaries follow: the first on English attitudes and actions in a London suburb during the Interbellum (1918-1939) in his novels The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War, and the second on his Craddock trilogy, set in Devonshire, dramatizing the English experience from the Boer War until the late 1960s.
https://www.amazon.com/Delderfields-Novels-Cultural-History-Companion/dp/1433113953
2012
Victor Julius Lams
Edit ProfileEducation
Victor Lams studied at the University of Detroit where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 and a Master of Arts degree in 1960. He also attended Northwestern University where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965.
Career
Victor J. Lams began his academic career in 1965 at California State University, Chico where he served as a Professor of English until his retirement in 1996.
Victor wrote a number of books, among them are "Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in Clarissa" that was published in 1999, "Clarissa's Narrators" in 2001, "Newman’s Anglican Georgic: Parochial Sermons" in 2004, "Newman's Visionary Georgic: A Reading of Parochial Sermons" in 2006, "The Rhetoric of Newman’s Apologia pro Catholica, 1845-1864" in 2007, "Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide" in 2008, "Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels" in 2009, "The Ethos of Britain: Delderfieldʼs Swann Trilogy" and "R. F. Delderfield’s Novels as Cultural History: A Reader’s Companion" that came out in 2012.
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Works
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Clarissa's Narrators
(Challenging the view that Samuel Richardson's eighteenth-...)
2001 -
The Rhetoric of Newman’s Apologia pro Catholica, 1845-1864
(Focusing upon the arguments Newman uses to define Catholi...)
2007 -
Newman's Visionary Georgic: A Reading of Parochial Sermons
(Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman’s Paroc...)
2006 -
Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in Clarissa
(Samuel Richardson's highly acclaimed Clarissa, commonly r...)
1999 -
Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels
(Completing the survey begun in Lams’ Cornish Trilogy volu...)
2009 -
Newman’s Anglican Georgic: Parochial Sermons
(Newman’s Anglican Georgic offers moral reflections on hum...)
2004 -
Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide
(Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide is t...)
2008 -
R. F. Delderfield’s Novels as Cultural History: A Reader’s Companion
(This book begins with a survey of R. F. Delderfield’s kno...)
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«The Ethos of Britain»: Delderfieldʼs Swann Trilogy
(The novelist R. F. Delderfield’s trilogy of English life ...)
2012
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Clarissa's Narrators
Views
Victor's primary motivation for writing was to contribute in some small way to our understanding of particular works of literature, on the assumption that we all share a common nature and that literature explores and illuminates it.
Connections
Victor J. was married to Barbara Wright. They had four children, Martha Lams Da Re, Virginia Lams Parsons, Joseph, and Carol.
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Political Party
Republican party
Education
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1958
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1960
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1965
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1965 - 1996
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1999 - 2012