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David Daiches
A Celebration of His Life and Work

Edited by William Baker and Michael Lister

William Baker is Presidential Research Professor, Department of
English/ University Libraries, Northern Illinois University. He co-edits The Year’s Work in English Studies (OUP).

Michael Lister is a writer and independent researcher who lives in Edinburgh. He regularly reviews works on Scottish literature for several literary journals, and has published various articles about David Daiches.

 


David Daiches (1912–2005) was the first Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His distinguished career over more than half a century encompassed Universities on both sides of the Atlantic. His publications were prolific, extending to over one hundred books, three hundred articles, media and television, plus recordings. This Celebration of His Life and Work will include essays on his literary achievements in the areas of Scottish Literature, the Novel, Poetry and New/Historical Criticism and the American connection, and the academic as populariser, by distinguished scholars and critics.

The book will appeal to historians of twentieth century literary and cultural criticism, the History of twentieth-century Universities, students of Scottish and American Literature, and the relationship between the academic and journalism in the twentieth century.

  Introduction: The Biography
William Baker
Introduction: A Personal Reflection
Michael Lister

Part I: Essays

From Two Worlds to God and the Poets: David Daiches’ Role as Critical Mediator Martin Bidney
David Daiches and the Idea of a New University
Lord Asa Briggs

Was Too: Time Passed With David Daiches
Janet Burroway

Longer Days
Jenni Calder

Bridge Building
Jenni Calder

God and the Little Poets: On David Daiches and Muriel Spark
Owen Dudley Edwards

David Daiches and John Milton
Alastair Fowler

Repaying a Debt: David Daiches and Scottish Literature
Douglas Gifford

David Daiches on Scottish Literature
Andrew Hook

Scottish Literature at the Crossroads: An Encouraging Voice
R.D.S. Jack

‘ One City’ of Fragments: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Second (Person) City Through David Daiches’ Personal Eye
Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Destinations of Choice: Stevenson at Vailima, Hardy at Max Gate
Michael Millgate

Daiches and the Modern
Ira B. Nadel

David Daiches’ The Novel and the Modern World (1939) and the Reclamation of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Reputation
John G. Peters

The Allusive Hume: With Specific Reference to John Milton and Matthew Prior
John Valdimir Price

David Daiches: The Family Background
David Daiches Raphael

Co-Ordinate Points: A Portrait of David Daiches
Alan Riach

David Daiches: A Founding Dean of the University of Sussex
Angus Ross

Le Bon David: A Tribute to a Unique Scholar, Critic, and Literary Historian
Ian Simpson Ross

Looking into ‘Mézeray’
Roger Savage

David Daiches and Scotland
Paul Henderson Scott

‘A Very Strange Plant’: Carlyle, John Mitchel, and the Political Legacy of Swift
David R. Sorensen

Two Medieval Hebrew Devotional Poems: Convention, Evaluation, and ‘Platonic’ vs. ‘Metaphysical’ Poetry
Reuven Tsur

Separation and Synthesis: Understanding the Two Worlds of David Daiches and Jane Austen
Melora G. Vandersluis


Part II: Bibliography

David Daiches: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1923-2006
William Baker and Michael Lister

Index

 

Publication Details

 
ISBN:
978-1-84519-159-7 h/b
 
 
Page Extent / Format:
320 pp. / 229 x 152 mm
 
Release Date:
December 2007
  Illustrated:   No
 
Hardback Price:
£55.00 / $67.50
 
 

 
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