William Deresiewicz

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William Barry Deresiewicz (born 1964 in Englewood , New Jersey ) is an American journalist and literary critic .

Life

Deresiewicz grew up in New Jersey and studied in New York; In 1998 he received his PhD with the work The Novel of Community from Austen to Modernism at Columbia University . 1998–2008 he was a visiting lecturer at the English faculty at Yale University . He is particularly interested in Jane Austen , about whom he has published two books.

He began his journalistic career as a dance critic for magazines such as The Village Voice and the Financial Times . Since then he has emerged primarily as a literary critic. His often devastating reviews are feared not only by writers, but above all by literary scholars of the academic establishment, whose self-satisfaction in the ivory tower he never tires of criticizing. His essays and reviews are currently appearing in The Nation , The New Republic, and The New York Times ; He also writes a weekly blog for The American Scholar magazine .

Fonts

Books

  • Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets . Columbia University Press, New York 2004. ISBN 0-231-13414-2
  • A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter . Penguin Press, New York 2011. ISBN 1-59420-288-5
  • Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life . Free Press, New York 2014. ISBN 978-1-4767-0271-1

Essays (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Deresiewicz, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deresiewicz, William Barry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Englewood , New Jersey