Edwin M. Owner

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Edwin Moss Eigner (born April 3, 1931 in Boston ) is an American literary scholar .

He studied at Cornell University ( BA 1953) and at the University of Iowa ( MFA 1955, Ph.D. 1963). He taught at Northwestern University (1960–1963), the University of Kansas (1963–1966) and, from 1970, at the University of California, Riverside , to which he is still associated as emeritus . His main research interests are 19th century English and American literature .

Works

  • Robert Louis Stevenson and Romantic Tradition. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1966.
  • The Metaphysical Novel in England and America: Dickens, Bulwer, Melville, and Hawthorne. University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1978, ISBN 0520033825 .
  • (Ed. With George J. Worth): Victorian Criticism of the Novel. Cambridge University Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0521255155 .
  • The Dickens pantomime. University of California Press, Berkeley CA 1989, ISBN 0520062558 .
personal data
SURNAME Owner, Edwin M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Owner, Edwin Moss (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston