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American professor (born 1946) and literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden
Edward Mendelson (born March 15, 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University .[1] He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work, including Early Auden (1981) and Later Auden (1999).[2] He is also the author of The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (2006),[3] about nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels, and Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers (2015).
He has edited standard editions of works by W. H. Auden, including Collected Poems (1976; 2nd edn. 1990; 3rd edn., 2007), The English Auden (1977), Selected Poems (1979, 2nd edn., 2007), As I Walked Out One Evening (selected light verse, 1995), and the continuing Complete Works of W. H. Auden (1986– ).
His work on Thomas Pynchon includes Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays (1978) and numerous essays, including "The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying of Lot 49 " (1975; reprinted in the 1978 collection) and "Gravity's Encyclopedia" (in Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon) . The latter essay introduced the critical category of "encyclopedic narrative ," further elaborated in a later essay, "Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon".[4]
He is the editor of annotated editions of novels by Thomas Hardy , George Meredith , Arnold Bennett , H. G. Wells , and Anthony Trollope . With Michael Seidel he co-edited Homer to Brecht; The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions (1977).
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2017.[5] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ,[6] and was the first Isabel Dalhousie Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.[7]
Before teaching at Columbia, he was an associate professor of English at Yale University and a visiting associate professor of English at Harvard University . He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester (1966) and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University (1969).
Since 1986 he has written about computing, software, and typography and is a contributing editor of PC Magazine .[1]
He is married to the writer Cheryl Mendelson .
Bibliography [ edit ]
Auden, W. H. (1976). Mendelson, Edward (ed.). Collected poems . London: Faber & Faber.
Other editions: Random House, 1976. Revised edition: Vintage Books, 1991 ; Faber & Faber, 1991. Further revised edition: Modern Library, 2007; Faber & Faber 2007.
(as co-editor) Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions . Yale University Press, 1977. In collaboration with Michael Seidel.
(as editor) Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays . Prentice-Hall, 1978.
(as editor) W. H. Auden. The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings , 1927–1939. Faber & Faber, 1977; Random House, 1978.
(as editor) W. H. Auden. Selected Poems: New Edition . Vintage Books, 1978; Faber & Faber, 1978; expanded edition: Vintage Books, 2007.
Early Auden . Viking, 1981; Faber & Faber, 1981; revised paperback edition: Harvard University Press, 1983; Faber & Faber, 1999; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
(as editor) The Complete Works of W. H. Auden (eight vols). Princeton University Press, 1986– ; Faber & Faber, 1986– .
Later Auden . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999; Faber & Faber, 1999; revised paperback edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have To Say About the Stages of Life . Pantheon, 2006; with new afterword, Anchor Books, 2007.
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers . New York Review Books, 2015.
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography . Princeton University Press, 2018; revised from two earlier books on Auden.
Essays and reporting [ edit ]
"The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying of Lot 49 ". Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Literature , ed. Kenneth H. Baldwin and David K. Kirby. Duke University Press, 1975; revised version in Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays (see above),
"Gravity's Encyclopedia". Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon , ed. George Levine and David Leverenz. Little, Brown, 1976.
"Encyclopedic Narrative, from Dante to Pynchon". MLN , 91 (December 1976).
"The Word & the Web". New York Times Book Review , 2 June 1996.
"Clarissa Dalloway Remembers Cymbeline" , Lincoln Center Theater Review , Fall 2007, archived from the original on 2008-06-12
Mendelson, Edward (6 December 2007), "Auden and God" , New York Review of Books
Mendelson, Edward (12 June 2008), "New York Everyman" , New York Review of Books
Mendelson, Edward (25 September 2008), "What We Love, Not Are" , New York Review of Books
Mendelson, Edward (29 April 2010), "The Perils of His Magic Circle" , New York Review of Books
Mendelson, Edward (28 April 2011), "The Obedient Bellow" , New York Review of Books
Book reviews [ edit ]
Year
Review article
Work(s ) reviewed
2019
Mendelson, Edward (March 7–20, 2019). "Reading in an age of catastrophe". The New York Review of Books . 66 (4 ): 26–28.
Hutchinson, George. Facing the abyss : American literature and culture in the 1940s . New York: Columbia UP.
References [ edit ]
^ Mendelson, Edward (2006). The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life . New York: Pantheon. ISBN 0-375-42408-3 .
^ Jed Rasula (1999). "Textual Indigence in the Archive" . Postmodern Culture . 9 (3 ). doi :10.1353/pmc.1999.0022 . S2CID 144232562 .
^ "Newly Elected - April 2017 | American Philosophical Society" . Sep 15, 2017. Archived from the original on September 15, 2017. Retrieved Sep 22, 2019 .
^ "Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature" . Archived from the original on 2015-04-27. Retrieved 2009-01-25 .
^ "Isabel Dalhousie Fellowship" . Archived from the original on 2012-11-29.
Further reading [ edit ]
Contemporary Authors (Gale Research), vol. 65–68
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series (Gale Research), vols. 11, 87
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, ed. by Jenny Stringer (1996)
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