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Leopold Damrosch Jr.
Leopold Damrosch Jr. (born 1941) is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholarship, Marshall Scholar, and a Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. from Princeton University. His areas of academic specialty include Romanticism, the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment, and *Puritanism. Damrosch's ''The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus'' is one of the most important recent explorations of the early history of the Society of Friends. His ''Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius'' (2005) was a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction and winner of the 2006 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction. Among his other books are ''Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth'' (1980), ''God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding'' (1985), ''Fictions of Reality in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious and highly ranked universities in the world. The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses: the Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.9 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Endowment inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
