Herbert James Hunt

Herbert James Hunt (* 1899 in Lichfield , † November 2, 1973 ) was a British Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Hunt studied at Oxford and taught at St Edmund Hall , Oxford from 1927 to 1944 . From 1944 to 1966 he was Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London , and from 1966 to 1970 Senior Fellow in French at the University of Warwick .

Le Socialisme et le romantisme en France. Étude de la presse socialiste de 1830 à 1848, Oxford 1935
The epic in nineteenth-century France. A study in heroic and humanitarian poetry from "Les martyrs" to "Les siècles morts" 1941 (preface by Gustave Rudler )
(Ed.) Hugo, La Légende des siècles, Oxford 1945
Honoré de Balzac. A biography, London 1957
Balzac's Comédie humaine, London 1959, 1964
(Ed.) Balzac, Eugénie Grandet, London 1967
(Ed. And translator) Balzac, Cousin Pons, London 1968, 1984 (Penguin Books)
(Ed. And translator) Balzac, Lost Illusions, Harmondsworth 1971, 1976
(Ed. And translator) Balzac, A murky business [Une ténébreuse affaire], Harmondsworth 1972
(Ed. And translator) Balzac, History of the Thirteen, London 1974, 1978 (Penguin Classics)
(Ed. And translator) Balzac, The wild ass's skin (La peau de chagrin), Harmondsworth 1977

Balzac and the Nineteenth Century. Studies in French literature presented to Herbert J. Hunt by pupils, colleagues and friends, ed. by Donald Geoffrey Charlton, Jean Gaudon and Anthony R. Pugh, Leicester 1972
[Obituary in:] French Studies 28, 1974, pp. 248-249

Literature by and about Herbert James Hunt in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

personal data
SURNAME	Hunt, Herbert James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hunt, Herbert J .; Hunt, HJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lichfield
DATE OF DEATH	2nd November 1973