Frederick Charles Green

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Frederick Charles Green (* 1891 in Aberdeen ; † 1964 ) was a British Romance studies , English and literary scholar.

life and work

Green was a student in Dundee . He studied at the University of St Andrews , in Paris and Cologne. He received his doctorate in English in Cologne in 1920 with the work Robert Fergusson's Contribution to the Literature of Scotland (Heidelberg 1923). In 1923 he received his doctorate in Romance studies in Paris with the work La Peinture des moeurs de la bonne société dans le roman français de 1715 à 1761 (Paris 1924). From 1921 to 1934 Green taught in North America successively at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg , at the University of Rochester , New York, and at the University of Toronto . From 1935 until his retirement in 1951 he was at theUniversity of Cambridge (to succeed Oliver Herbert Phelps Prior ) Drapers Professor of French (to succeed Lewis Charles Harmer ). Green was chairman of the Association internationale des études françaises (AIEF).

Frederick Charles Green was the father of mathematician James Alexander Green .

Other works

  • French novelists manners and ideas, from the Renaissance to the Revolution, London 1928, New York 1964
  • Eighteenth-century France. Six essays, London 1929
  • French novelists from the Revolution to Proust, London 1931, New York 1964
  • Minuet. A critical survey of French and English literary ideas in the eighteenth century, London 1935; New York 1966 (ud T. Literary ideas in 18th century France and England. A critical survey)
  • (Ed.) Diderot's Writings on the Theater, Cambridge 1936
  • Stendhal, Cambridge 1939
  • (Ed.) Maupassant, Choix de contes, Cambridge 1945
  • The Mind of Proust. A detailed interpretation of "A la recherche du temps perdu", Cambridge 1949
  • Rousseau and the idea of ​​progress, Oxford 1950 (Zaharoff Lecture)
  • (Ed.) Anthologie des conteurs du dix-neuvième siècle. Selected with notes and short biographies, Cambridge 1951
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a critical study of his life and writings, Cambridge 1955
  • The Ancien Regime. A manual of French institutions and social classes, Edinburgh 1958
  • A Comparative View of French and British Civilization 1850-1870, London 1965

literature

  • [Obituary in:] French Studies 18, 1964, pp. 302-303

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personal data
SURNAME Green, Frederick Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, FC; Green, Frederick C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies, English studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen
DATE OF DEATH 1964