Roston, Murray

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ROSTON, Murray

ROSTON, Murray. British/Israeli, b. 1928. Genres: Art/Art history, Literary criticism and history, Theatre, Intellectual history. Career: Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, professor of English literature (joined faculty 1956); University of California, Los Angeles, permanent adjunct professor of English literature. Publications: Prophet and Poet: The Bible and the Growth of Romanticism, 1965; Biblical Drama in England from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, 1968; The Soul of Wit: A Study of John Donne, 1974; Milton and the Baroque, 1980; Sixteenth-Century English Literature, 1982; Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, 1987; Changing Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts 1650-1820, 1990; Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts, 1996; Modernist Patterns: In Literature and the Visual Arts, 1999; The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature, 2001. Address: 51 Katznelson St, Kiryat Ono, Israel.