David Quint
George M. Bodman Professor
of English
and Comparative Literature
Chair, Comparative Literature
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Coll 201 | 432-1658 | david.quint@yale.edu
Office hours: M T 2-4
EDUCATION:
B.A., Yale University 1971
Ph.D., Yale University 1976
INTERESTS: British and European Renaissance Literature and
Culture; Milton; Spenser; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; the Epic
Tradition; English Literature and the Classics; Literary Theory; Italian
and French literature from 1400 to 1700.
David Quint's fields of study include classical and Renaissance heroic
poetry and their influence on the epics of Milton and Spenser, Renaissance
Drama, and the literature and legacy of humanism. He is the present chair
of the Renaissance Studies Graduate Program, and he teaches courses that
look at the relationship of the literature and art of the period to its
intellectual, social, and political contexts. He is particularly interested
in the larger cultural meanings vested in literary and generic forms.
Quint is the author of Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature
(1983); Epic and Empire (1993); Montaigne and the Quality of
Mercy (1998). He has translated The Stanze of Poliziano (1978)
and Ariosto's Cinque Canti (1996). He has published essays on Virgil,
Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Bruni, Castiglione, Flaubert, and Cervantes.
He is the co-editor of Renaissance Theory/ Renaissance Texts (1986).
GRADUATE COURSES: Introduction to Renaissance Studies, The Epic: Politics and Literary Form
