Howard Weinbrot

Ricardo Quintana Professor of English; William Freeman Vilas Research Professor in the College of Letters and Science
608-263-3819
weinbrot@wisc.edu

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, University of Chicago, 1963
MA, University of Chicago, 1959
BA, Antioch College, 1958

Research Interests

18th-century British literature, with intellectual, French, classical, and other historical contexts; Anglo-classical and Anglo-French contexts; genre; satire; poetry; novel; Samuel Johnson and his Circle; Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and the Scriblerians; nationalism; etc.

Selected Publications

Numerous articles, reviews, and scholarly presentations.

Books: The Formal Strain: Studies in Augustan Imitation and Satire (1963); Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England: The Decline of a Classical Norm (1978); Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire (1982); Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Texts and Contexts from Dryden to Peter Pindar (1988); Britannia's Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian; Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (2005); Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics (2005). Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Texts and Contexts from Dryden to Peter Pindar (1988), paper back reprint, 2006; Britannia's Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian, (1993), paperback reprint 2006;

Editions: New Aspects of Lexicography (1972); co-ed, The Eighteenth-Century: A Current Bibliography (1973); co-ed, Oxford Anthology of Poetry in English (1987); Northrop Frye and Eighteenth-Century Literature (1991); co-ed, Eighteenth-Century Contexts (2001).

Honors & Awards

Numerous Honors and Awards, including Donald and Mary Hyde Collection Research Fellow, 2007-9, Andrew Mellon Fellow of the Huntington Library (2007-8); Clifford Lecturer American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008; Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1993-94 and Visiting Member 2002; Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-89; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1978.

Personal Statement

All texts have contexts. I hope to establish at least some of those contexts in order to understand authorial intention and achievement, readers' responses, and the ways in which these influence the authors' and our own conception of form.