Carnochan, W. B.

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CARNOCHAN, W. B.

CARNOCHAN, W. B. American, b. 1930. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Stanford University, California, instructor, 1960-62, assistant professor, 1962-68, associate professor, 1968-73, professor, 1973-92, dean of grad studies, 1975-80, vice-provost, 1976-80, director of Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-91, Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities, 1993-94, emeritus, 1994-. Publications: (ed.) The Man of Mode, by George Etherege, 1966; Lemuel Gulliver's Mirror for Man, 1968; Confinement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century, 1977; Gibbon's Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian, 1987; The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience, 1993; Momentary Bliss: An American Memoir, 1999. Address: English Dept, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]