Welsh, Alexander

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WELSH, Alexander

WELSH, Alexander. American, b. 1933. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Yale University, New Haven, Conn., instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor, 1960-67, Emily Sanford Professor of English, 1991-; University of Pittsburgh, Pa., professor of English, 1967-72; University of California at Los Angeles, professor of English, 1972-91. Nineteenth Century Fiction, ed., 1975-81. Publications: The Hero of the Waverley Novels, 1963; (ed.) Thackeray: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1968; The City of Dickens, 1971; Reflections on the Hero as Quixote, 1981; George Eliot and Blackmail, 1985; From Copyright to Copperfield, 1987; Strong Representations, 1992; Freud's Wishful Dream Book, 1994; Dickens Redressed, 2000; Hamlet in His Modern Guises, 2001. Address: Dept. of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8302, U.S.A.