Christian Gauss Award

Given by Phi Beta Kappa Society

Altres noms: Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society (Anglès)
98 obres / 100 Items 11,096 Llibres 228 Ressenyes 4.1

The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, the

mostra'n més distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. To be eligible, a literary biography must have a predominantly critical emphasis. mostra'n menys
Stages:
Tots, Winner (73), Shortlist (29)
Years:
Tots, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (7), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (2), 2017 (5), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1), 1956 (1), 1955 (1), 1954 (1), 1953 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1)

Winner 73

ObraAny
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (Crip, 5) de Dennis Tyler2023
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature de Farah Jasmine Griffin2022
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir de Jenn Shapland2021
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading de Leah Price2020
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry de Imani Perry2019
Henry David Thoreau: A Life de Laura Dassow Walls2018
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life de Ruth Franklin2017
The Poetry of John Milton de Gordon Teskey2016
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities de James Turner2015
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 de Steven Moore2014
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures de Claudia L. Johnson2013
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich de Christopher B. Krebs2012
From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature de Randall Fuller2011
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II de V. A. Kolve2010
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade de Christopher Benfey2009
Henry James Goes to Paris de Peter Brooks2008
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line de George Hutchinson2007
Dickinson's Misery de Virginia Jackson2006
Shakespeare after All de Marjorie Garber2005
Emerson de Lawrence Buell2004
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland de R. F. Foster2003
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses de Susan Stewart2002
Transcendental Wordplay: America'S Romantic Punsters & Search de Michael West2001
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture de Leonard Barkan2000
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing de James Olney1999
The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises de Theodore Ziolkowski1998
The Title to the Poem de Anne Ferry1997
What Is Pastoral? de Paul Alpers1996
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 de Joseph Frank1995
The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story de John T. Irwin1994
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature de Eric J. Sundquist1993
Chaucer and the Subject of History de Lee Patterson1992
The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel de Richard D. Altick1991
Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy de Evelyn Barish1990
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present de Harold Bloom1989
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville de David S. Reynolds1988
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism de Leonard Barkan1987
Alexander Pope: A Life de Maynard Mack1986
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats de Peter M. Sacks1985
Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age, Vol. 3: Dean Swift (Volume 3) de Irvin Ehrenpreis1984
The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry de W. R. Johnson1983
The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers de Lawrence I. Lipking1982
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart de Robert Bernard Martin1981
The Creation of Nikolai Gogol de Donald Fanger1980
The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society de Robert Bechtold Heilman1979
Person, place, and thing in Henry James's novels de Charles Roberts Anderson1978
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 de Joseph Frank1977
T.S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet de Elisabeth Wintersteen Schneider1976
Young Thomas Hardy de Robert Gittings1975
Mandelstam de Clarence Brown1974
Kings, Beasts and Heroes. de Gwyn Jones1973
The Pound Era de Hugh Kenner1972
Politics in English Romantic Poetry de Carl Woodring1971
The Burden of the Past and the English Poet de Walter Jackson Bate1970
Shaw the Dramatist de Louis Crompton1969
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End de Barbara Herrnstein Smith1968
The American 1890s; life and times of a lost generation de Larzer Ziff1967
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster de Wilfred Stone1966
Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 de Geoffrey H. Hartman1965
John Keats de Walter Jackson Bate1964
Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne de Joan Webber1963
The Rhetoric of Fiction de Wayne C. Booth1962
Emily Dickinson's poetry; stairway of surprise de Charles Roberts Anderson1961
Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford Paperbacks, No. 149) de Reuben A. Brower1960
The idea of poetry in France; from Houdar de La Motte to Baudelaire de Margaret Gilman1959
Homer and the Heroic Tradition de Cedric H. Whitman1958
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 de Walter E. Houghton1957
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson de Walter Jackson Bate1956
The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century de Louis L. Martz1955
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition de Meyer H. Abrams1954
Dante's drama of the mind : a modern reading of the Purgatorio de Francis Fergusson1953
The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture de Jerome Hamilton Buckley1952
Studies in seventeenth-century poetic de Ruth Wallerstein1951

Shortlist 29

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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times de Azar Nafisi2023
What Is American Literature de Stavans2023
Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James de Jane F. Thrailkill2023
The Secret Life of Literature de Lisa Zunshine2023
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature de Farah Jasmine Griffin2022
Love’s Shadow de Paul A. Bove2022
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life de George Saunders2022
Orwell's Roses de Rebecca Solnit2022
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life de Heather Cass White2022
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir de Jenn Shapland2021
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man de Joshua Bennett2021
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man de Joshua Bennett2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form de Sianne Ngai2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form de Sianne Ngai2021
Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) de Namwali Serpell2021
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future de James Shapiro2021
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative de Jane Alison2020
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age de Leo Damrosch2020
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past de Lewis Hyde2020
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster de Gerard Passannante2020
Sharp de Michelle Dean2019
Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s de George Hutchinson2019
Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness de Jonathan Kramnick2019
Elements of Surprise de Vera Tobin2019
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History de Joseph North2018
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century de Jerome Charyn2017
Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists de Ross Posnock2017
Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination de Vaughn Rasberry2017
Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism de Alex Woloch2017

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