Clubbe, John 1938-

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CLUBBE, John 1938-

PERSONAL: Born February 21, 1938, in New York, NY; son of John and Gabrielle (Boiteux) Clubbe. Education: Columbia University, B.A., 1959, M.A., 1960, Ph.D., 1965; attended University of Paris, Sorbonne, 1960-61.

ADDRESSES: Home—1266 Canyon Rd., Sante Fe, NM 87501-6128.

CAREER: Part-time lecturer in English at Columbia University, New York City, 1962-63, and City University of New York, New York City, 1963-65; University of Munster, Munster, Germany, lecturer in English, 1965-66; Duke University, Durham, N.C., assistant professor, 1966-70, associate professor of English, 1970-75; University of Kentucky, Lexington, professor of English, 1975-1999, professor emeritus, 1999—.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, Society of Architecture Historians, Keats-Shelley Association, American Byron Society (founding member; chairman, 1976-1999); International Byron Society (joint president, 1986—).

AWARDS, HONORS: National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1971-72, 1983-84; Guggenheim fellowship, 1975-76; visiting scholar, Harvard University, 1989-1990.

WRITINGS:

Victorian Forerunner: The Later Career of Thomas Hood, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1968.

(Editor) Selected Poems of Thomas Hood, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1970.

(Editor) Two Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1974.

(Coeditor) Nineteenth Century Literary Perspectives, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1974.

(Editor) Carlyle and His Contemporaries: Essays in Honor of Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 1976, published as Carlyle's Friendship and Other Studies: Essays in Honour of Charles Richard Sanders, 1977.

(Editor) Froude's Life of Carlyle, Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH), 1979.

(Coauthor) Byron et la Suisse, Droz, 1982.

(With Ernest J. Lovell, Jr.) English Romanticism: The Grounds of Belief, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1983.

(With Jerome Meckier) Victorian Perspectives: Six Essays, Macmillan, 1989.

Cincinnati Observed: Architecture and History, Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH), 1992.

Also contributor to The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism, Modern Language Association, 1984. Assistant editor for The Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1812-1828, Duke University Press, Volumes 1-4, 1970, associate editor, Volumes 5-7, 1977, 8-9, 1981.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Byron and Napoleon: Anatomy of an Obsession, a critical analysis of their interaction; Carlyle As Epic Historian, a study of Carlyle; a monograph on Thomas Sully's portrait of Byron; a critical biography of J. A. Froude and an edition of his letters.

SIDELIGHTS: "There are certain books that one could go on writing and talking about for days, whether read in their own time or years following initial publication," writes Kay Dick in the London Times. "Their power to pleasure, intellect and imagination, to engage memory, to stimulate partisanship and controversy makes them classic. In biography, Froude's Life of Carlyle is as outstanding a work of art as Lockhart's Scott and Boswell's Johnson. Professor John Clubbe's abridged edition gives a renewal of life to this extraordinarily vivid and tantalizing masterpiece."