John Bender

John Bender, PhD

  • Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Professor of English
  • Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Affiliated faculty at The Europe Center

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Biography

John Bender is Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Affiliated Faculty of the The Europe Center. His research and teaching focus on the 18th century in England and France. His special concerns include the relationship of literature to visual arts, to philosophy and science, as well as to the sociology of literature and critical theory. 

 

Bender is the author of Spenser and Literary Pictorialism (1972), Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in 18th-Century England (1987), which received the Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies, The Culture of Diagram (2010)--as co-author with Michael Marrinan—and Ends of Enlightenment (2012).

publications

Books
July 2012

Ends of Enlightenment

Author(s)
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