Richard Nelson Coe

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Richard Nelson Coe (* 1923 ; † 1987 ) was a British Romance studies and literary scholar .

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Coe attended the Repton School . He studied in Oxford, London, Paris and Leeds and received his doctorate in 1954 from the University of Leeds with the thesis Le philosophe Morelly. An examination of the political philosophy of his work, seen in relation to the general philosophical background of the Eighteenth Century (published in German translation by T. Morelly. Ein Rationalist auf dem Weg zum Sozialismus , Berlin 1961). Coe taught at the Universities of Leeds, from Queensland in Brisbane , Melbourne , Warwick and was most recently Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis .

Works, in selection
  1. Ionesco , Edinburgh 1961; Ionesco. A study of his plays , London 1971
  2. Beckett , Edinburgh / London 1964
  3. The Vision of Jean Genet , New York 1968
  4. When the grass was taller. Autobiography and experience of childhood , New Haven / London 1984 (regarding 600 international childhood reports)
  5. (Translator) Stendhal, Life of Rossini , London 1970, Oxford 2008

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SURNAME Coe, Richard Nelson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coe, Richard N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
DATE OF DEATH 1987