Marjorie Nicolson

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Marjorie Hope Nicolson (born February 18, 1894 in Yonkers , † March 9, 1981 in White Plains ) was an American literary and science historian.

She was the daughter of a respected journalist at the Detroit Free Press and studied literature (English) at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in 1914, taught high schools in Saginaw and Detroit before continuing her studies with a master’s degree. Graduated in 1918. She received her doctorate from Yale University in 1920 , then taught again in Michigan and was a post-doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University from 1926 to 1929 under Arthur Oncken Lovejoy , whom she considered her actual teacher, and then was for some time a theater critic in her father's newspaper before becoming a professor at Smith College in 1929. From 1941 to 1962 she was a professor at Columbia University , where she temporarily headed the Department of Graduate Studies in English and Comparative Literature History.

She dealt with British literary and scientific history in the 17th century, especially the relationship between science and literature. She edited the letters of the philosopher Anne Conway .

In 1971 she received the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association for her work on the relationship between literature and science.

Since 1941 she was a member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1955 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1963 she was president of the Modern Language Association. In 1940 she was the first woman president of Phi Beta Kappa.

She was long editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas .

Fonts

  • The Art of Description, FS Crofts & Co., 1937
  • Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets, Princeton University Press, 1946, 1966
  • Voyages to the Moon, Macmillan 1948
  • The Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Effect of the "New Science" on Seventeenth-Century Poetry, Columbia UP 1950, 2nd edition 1962
  • Science and Imagination, 1956; Archon Books 1976
  • Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite, 1959, University of Washington Press 1997
  • A Reader's Guide to John Milton, 1963, Syracuse University Press 1998
  • Pepys' Diary and the New Science 1965
  • Books are Not Dead Things, College of William and Mary, 1966
  • Editor with George Rousseau: This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences, Princeton University Press 1968
  • John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His Poetry, Octagon Books, 1971
  • Editors: The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More and Their Friends, 1642–1684, new edition Oxford University Press, 1992 (new edition by Sarah Hutton , originally published in 1930)
  • Editor with David Stuart Rodes of Thomas Shadwell : The Virtuoso, by Thomas Shadwell, University of Nebraska Press, 1992
  • Two Voices: Science and Literature, Rockefeller Institute Review, Volume 1, June 1963, pp. 1-11.

literature

  • Edward W. Tayler: In Memoriam: Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894-1981), Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 42, 1981, 665-667

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Marjorie Hope Nicolson. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nicolson, Marjorie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicolson, Marjorie Hope (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of literature and science
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonkers
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1981
Place of death White Plains