GR Thompson

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Gary Richard Thompson (born December 11, 1937 in Los Angeles ) is an American literary scholar who has made a name for himself with his work on Edgar Allan Poe .

He studied at San Fernando Valley State College (BA 1959) and the University of Southern California (MA 1960, Ph.D. 1967). He taught English literature from 1962-63 at Ohio State University, Columbus , 1964-66 at UCLA , 1967-72 at Washington State University and finally from 1972 at Purdue University , to which he is still professor emeritus.

In 1968 he founded the journal Poe Studies , which also honored him with a festschrift in 2006 .

literature

Works

  • (Ed.): Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe . Harper, New York 1970.
  • (with J. Chesley Taylor): Ritual, Realism, and Revolt: Major Traditions in the Drama . Scribner, New York 1972.
  • Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1973. ISBN 0-299-06380-1
  • (Ed.): The Gothic Imagination: Essays in Dark Romanticism . Washington State University Press, Pullman 1974.
  • (Ed.): Romantic Gothic Tales, 1798-1840 . Harper & Row, New York 1979. ISBN 0-06-080343-6
  • (Ed. With Virgil L. Lokke): Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe: Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel . Purdue University Press, West Lafayette IN 1981. ISBN 0-911198-60-1
  • (Ed.): Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews . Library of America , New York 1984. ISBN 0-940450-19-4
  • The Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne's Provincial Tales . Duke University Press, Durham NC 1993. ISBN 0-8223-1321-9
  • with Eric Carl Link: Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge LA 1999. ISBN 0-8071-2351-X
  • (Ed.): Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems, Tales, Criticism . Harper Perennial Modern Classics, New York 2004. ISBN 0-06-072785-3
  • (Ed.): The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism . WW Norton & Co., New York 2004. ISBN 0-393-97285-2
  • (Ed. With Robert Paul Lamb): A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 . Blackwell, Malden MA et al. 2005. ISBN 1-4051-0064-8

Secondary literature

personal data
SURNAME Thompson, GR
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Gary Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles