James Chandler (born January 17, 1948[1]) is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.[2] He was previously the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language & Literature at the same institution.[3]

Chandler is the author of three books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1984[4]), England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, which won the 2000 Gordon J. Laing Award for distinction in academic publishing,[3] and An Archeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (2013), which examines continuities between the Romantic culture of sentiment and twentieth-century film.

References

  1. ↑ "James Chandler". Contemporary Authors Online. December 12, 2006. Retrieved on December 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ "James Chandler". University of Chicago. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. 1 2 Fournier, Arthur (26 April 2001). "Chandler wins 2000 Laing Award". University of Chicago Chronicle. Vol. 20, no. 15. University of Chicago. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  4. ↑ Wordsworth's Second Nature. University of Chicago Press.


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