English

EDUCATION:
M.A., B. Litt., University of Oxford

INTERESTS: 18th century; modern British; international; the novel; non-fiction prose

Claude Rawson is the Delegate for Literature and Language, Oxford University Press, New York, and a Founding General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. He is the General Editor of the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library. From 1989 to 2001 he served as General Editor and Chairman of the Yale Boswell Editions. He was an Editor of the Modern Language Review and Yearbook of English Studies from 1974 to 1988, and holds the Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service as an Editor from the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals (1988).

Rawson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Past President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He was the Clifford Lecturer for 1992 (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), and Bateson Lecturer for 1999 (University of Oxford).

He has lectured widely in Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Far East, and has written numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress (1972, 1991)

--Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1972, 1991), Order from Confusion Sprung (1985, 1992)

--The Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell (ed., with F.P. Lock, 1989)

--Satire and Sentiment, 1660 - 1830 (1994, 2000)

--The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, IV: The Eighteenth Century (ed., with H.B. Nisbet, 1997)

--God, Gulliver, and Genocide (2001)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Heroes, Mock-Heroic, and War, T. S. Eliot: Tradition and Modernity