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'''Barbara Kiefer Lewalski''' (1931-2018) was an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on [[John Milton]].<ref>{{Cite news |
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'''Barbara Josephine Lewalski''' ({{Nee|Kiefer}}; February 22, 1931 – March 2, 2018)<ref name="nyt-obit">Roberts, Sam (March 29, 2018). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/obituaries/barbara-lewalski-87-milton-scholar-and-barrier-breaker-is-dead.html Barbara Lewalski, 87, Milton Scholar and Barrier Breaker, Is Dead]". ''[[The New York Times]]''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-03-30.</ref><ref name="legacy.com">[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/providence/obituary.aspx?pid=188376948 Barbara Lewalski profile]. legacy.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.</ref> was an American academic, an authority on [[Renaissance literature]] particularly known for her work on [[John Milton]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Raymond|first=Joad|title=Milton lost in single-mindedness|newspaper=[[Times Higher Education]]|date=April 19, 2002}}</ref> |
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==Life== |
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Lewalski graduated B.S.E. at [[Emporia State University]] in 1950 and A.M. in 1951, Ph.D. in 1956 at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite web |
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Born in [[Topeka, Kansas]], to John Kiefer, a farmer, and Vivo ({{Nee|Hutton}}), an elementary schoolteacher and speech therapist, she received her BSE at [[Emporia State University]] in 1950 and her AM in 1951. She went on to earn a PhD at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1956.<ref name="Encyclopedia.com">{{cite web|date=2009|title=Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/lewalski-barbara-kiefer-1931|accessdate=2018-03-10|work=Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=English|url=http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/programs_of_study/english.php|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204084737/http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/programs_of_study/english.php|archivedate=February 4, 2010|accessdate=2010-01-25|publisher=[[Harvard University]]}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Her first book, ''Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained'', has been praised as a "trail-blazing" work that marshals "great learning in the service of understanding a specific artefact, without swamping the artefact."<ref name="Simpson" /> |
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Lewalski was a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] in 1967,<ref>{{Cite web|title=All Fellows|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=l&page=10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603233947/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=l&page=10|archivedate=June 3, 2011|accessdate=2010-01-25|publisher=[[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]]}}</ref> and was elected a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1980 and a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1986.<ref name="legacy.com" /> |
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From 1983 to 2010 she was the [[William R. Kenan, Jr.]], Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at [[Harvard University]]. From 1956 to 1982 she taught at [[Brown University]], holding the positions of Alumni-Alumnae University Professor (1976–82), Director of Graduate Studies in English (1968–72), and Chair of the Renaissance Studies Program (1976–80). |
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| ⚫ | In 2016, the Renaissance Society of America awarded her the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award for recognition of her decades of scholarship.<ref name="Simpson">{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=James|title=Barbara Lewalski Awarded The Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award - Harvard University Department of English|url=https://english.fas.harvard.edu/news/barbara-lewalski-awarded-the-paul-oskar-kristeller-lifetime-achievement-award|website=Harvard University Department of English|accessdate=2018-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402200854/https://english.fas.harvard.edu/news/barbara-lewalski-awarded-the-paul-oskar-kristeller-lifetime-achievement-award/|archive-date=2018-04-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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Lewalski died in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], at the age of 87. She had congestive heart failure and died of a heart attack on March 2, 2018.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Katie|title=Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, prominent scholar of literature who was born in Topeka, dies at 87|url=http://www.cjonline.com/news/20180403/barbara-kiefer-lewalski-prominent-scholar-of-literature-who-was-born-in-topeka-dies-at-87|date=April 3, 2018|accessdate=2018-04-06|work=The Topeka Capital-Journal}}</ref> |
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==Works== |
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*''Milton's Brief Epic'' (1966) |
*''Milton's Brief Epic'' (1966) |
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*''Donne's "Anniversaries" and the Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Symbolic Mode'' (1973) |
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*''Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century English Lyric'' (1979) |
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*''Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms'' (1985) |
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*''Writing Women in Jacobean England'' (1993) |
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*(editor) ''The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght'' (1996) |
*(editor) ''The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght'' (1996) |
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*''The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography'' (2000) |
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*(editor) John Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' (2007) |
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==Further reading== |
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* [[Amy Boesky]], Mary Thomas Crane (editors) (2000), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx9i_A4VhsoC&source=gbs_book_similarbooks ''Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski''] |
* [[Amy Boesky]], Mary Thomas Crane (editors) (2000), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx9i_A4VhsoC&source=gbs_book_similarbooks ''Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski'']<!-- publisher, ISSN/ISBN needed --> |
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Barbara Josephine Lewalski (née Kiefer; February 22, 1931 – March 2, 2018)[1][2] was an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on John Milton.[3]
Born in Topeka, Kansas, to John Kiefer, a farmer, and Vivo (née Hutton), an elementary schoolteacher and speech therapist, she received her BSE at Emporia State University in 1950 and her AM in 1951. She went on to earn a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1956.[4][5]
Her first book, Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained, has been praised as a "trail-blazing" work that marshals "great learning in the service of understanding a specific artefact, without swamping the artefact."[6]
Lewalski was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967,[7] and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1986.[2]
From 1983 to 2010 she was the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University. From 1956 to 1982 she taught at Brown University, holding the positions of Alumni-Alumnae University Professor (1976–82), Director of Graduate Studies in English (1968–72), and Chair of the Renaissance Studies Program (1976–80).
In 2016, the Renaissance Society of America awarded her the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award for recognition of her decades of scholarship.[6]
Lewalski died in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 87. She had congestive heart failure and died of a heart attack on March 2, 2018.[8]
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