David Daiches A Celebration of His Life and Work

by Baker, William; Lister, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781845191597
• ISBN10: 1845191595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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 graduate of the University of Stirling. Involved in many projects and campaigns to promote the arts in Scotland, he also writes for a number of literary magazines, including textualities.net and the Times Literary Supplement. He is Reviews Editor of the Edinburgh Review.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
The Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction: The Biography	p. 1
Introduction: A Personal Reflection	p. 7
Essays
From Two Worlds to God and the Poets; David Daiches' Role as Critical Mediator	p. 11
David Daiches and the Idea of a New University	p. 19
Was Too: Time Passed With David Daiches	p. 28
Longer Days	p. 36
Bridge Building	p. 38
God and the Little Poets: On David Daiches and Muriel Spark	p. 45
David Daiches and John Milton	p. 55
Repaying a Debt: David Daiches and Scottish Literature	p. 64
David Daiches on Scottish Literature	p. 71
Scottish Literature at the Crossroads: An Encouraging Voice	p. 78
'One City' of Fragments: Robert Louis Stevenson's Second (Person) City Through David Daiches' Personal Eye	p. 85
Destinations of Choice: Stevenson at Vailima, Hardy at Max Gate	p. 93
Daiches and the Modern	p. 104
David Daiches' The Novel and the Modern World (1939) and the Reclamation of Joseph Conrad's Literary Reputation	p. 111
The Allusive Hume: "With Specific Reference to John Milton and Matthew Prior	p. 118
David Daiches: The Family Background	p. 130
Co-Ordinate Points: A Portrait of David Daiches	p. 137
David Daiches: A Founding Dean of the University of Sussex	p. 140
Le Bon David: A Tribute to a Unique Scholar, Critic, and Literary Historian	p. 147
Looking into 'Mézeray'	p. 155
David Daiches and Scotland	p. 163
'A Very Strange Plant': Carlyle, John Mitchel, and the Political Legacy of Swift	p. 172
Two Medieval Hebrew Devotional Poems: Convention, Evaluation, and 'Platonic' vs. 'Metaphysical' Poetry	p. 180
Separation and Synthesis: Understanding the Two Worlds of David Daiches and Jane Austen	p. 188
Bibliography
David Daiches: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1923-2006	p. 197
Index	p. 285
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