Frederick Newberry

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Frederick H. Newberry (born November 15, 1941 in Detroit ) is an American literary scholar who has made a name for himself with his work on Nathaniel Hawthorne .

career

Newberry grew up in Burbank, California . He studied first at the University of Redlands ( BA 1964, MA 1969), later American studies at Washington State University ( Ph.D. 1977). He began teaching in 1976 as a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1977 he moved to the University of Oregon as an assistant professor . In 1986 he became a professor of American literature at Duquesne University . In 2012 he retired. His main research interests are 19th century American literature , and most of his publications are based on the works of Hawthorne.

Publications

Monographs
  • Hawthorne's Divided Loyalties: England and America in His Works . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford NJ 1987. ISBN 0838632742
Articles (selection)
  • 'The Gray Champion': Hawthorne's Ironic Criticism of Puritan Rebellion . In: Studies in Short Fiction 13, 1976. pp. 363-70.
  • Tradition and Disinheritance in 'The Scarlet Letter' . In: ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 23, 1977. pp. 1-26.
  • The Demonic in "Endicott and the Red Cross" . In: Papers on Language and Literature 13, 1977. pp. 251-259.
  • A Note on the Horror in James's Revision of Daisy Miller . In: The Henry James Review 3: 3, 1982. pp. 229-232.
  • A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter . In: The New England Quarterly 60: 2, 1987. pp. 256-264.
  • The Biblical Veil: Sources and Typology in Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" . In: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31: 2, 1989. pp. 169-195.
  • Fantasy, Reality and Audience in Hawthorne's "Drowne's Wooden Image" . In: Studies in the Novel 23: 1, 1991. pp. 28-45.
  • "The Artist of the Beautiful": Crossing the Transcendent Divide in Hawthorne's Fiction . In: Nineteenth-Century Literature 50: 1, 1995. pp. 78-96.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newberry, Frederick H. In: American Council of Learned Societies (Ed.): Directory of American Scholars. English Speech and Drama . Science Press, Lancaster PA 1982. Volume 2, p. 515.
  2. ^ Stages of the academic career after Newberry, Frederick H. In: American Council of Learned Societies (Ed.): Directory of American Scholars. English Speech and Drama . Science Press, Lancaster PA 1982. Volume 2, p. 515.
  3. ↑ Linda Kinnahan: Frederick Newberry and Bernard Beranek Retire ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duq.edu archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB) . In: Much Ado. News from the English Department (Duquesne University) 5: 1, 2011-2012. Pp. 1-2.
personal data
SURNAME Newberry, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newberry, Frederick H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit