John Robert Moore

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John Robert Moore (born July 27, 1890 in Pueblo , Colorado ; died July 18, 1973 ) was an American literary scholar who emerged primarily with work on Daniel Defoe , more than a third of his around 150 articles published in various journals have this Author on the subject.

career

Moore, son of an Episcopalian priest, grew up in Colorado, graduated from the University of Missouri ( AB 1910, AM 1914) and received his doctorate in 1917 at the Harvard University for Ph.D. As a visiting lecturer, he taught English literature at the University of Wisconsin , the University of Delaware , the University of Michigan and the University of Washington , before moving to Indiana University as an assistant professor in 1922 , to which he remained associated until the end of his life; from 1929 he was a full professor here, and in 1961 he retired.

In 1950 Moore succeeded in demonstrating that the General History of the Pirates , which had previously been attributed to a Charles Johnson, came from the pen of Defoe; in addition, he identified Defoe as the author of other anonymous or pseudonymous writings of the early 19th century.

Works

  • Symphonies and Songs . Four Seas Co., Boston 1923 (poems).
  • The Transformation of Bottom . Indiana University, Bloomington 1926.
  • (Ed.): Representative English Dramas . Ginn, Boston 1929.
  • (Ed.): Representative Essays, English and American . Ginn, Boston 1930.
  • Daniel Defoe and Modern Economic Theory . Indiana University Bookstore, Bloomington 1935.
  • Defoe in the Pillory and Other Studies . Indiana University Bookstore, Bloomington 1939.
  • Defoe's Sources for Robert Drury's Journal . Indiana University, 1943. 2nd revised edition: Haskell House, New York 1973, ISBN 0838316565 .
  • (Ed.): Daniel Defoe: An Essay on the Regulation of the Press . Luttrell Society, Oxford 1948.
  • The Canon of Defoe's Writings . Bibliographical Society, London 1956.
  • Daniel Defoe: Citizen of the Modern World . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1958.
  • A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1960, Reprint: Archon Books, Hamden CN 1971, ISBN 0208010866 .
personal data
SURNAME Moore, John Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, John R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Pueblo , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 1973