James Chandler

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.

He is the author of three books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1984[2]), 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, 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. Wordsworth's Second Nature.


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