Tennyson, G(eorg) B(ernhard)

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TENNYSON, G(eorg) B(ernhard)

TENNYSON, G(eorg) B(ernhard). American, b. 1930. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970 (Asst Professor, 1964-67; Assoc Professor, 1967-70). Editor, Nineteenth-Century Fiction magazine, 1971-74, and since 1983 (renamed Nineteenth Century Literature, 1986). Instructor in English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1962-64. Publications: Sartor Called Resartus, 1964; An Introduction to Drama, 1967; (with E.J. Tennyson) An Index to "Nineteenth-Century Fiction," 1977; Victorian Devotional Poetry, 1981; Literary Language, 1991; (and narrator, producer) Owen Barfield: Man and Meaning (documentary), 1995. EDITOR: A Carlyle Reader, 1969, 1984; (with E.E. Ericson) Religion and Modern Literature, 1974; (with D.J. Gray) Victorian Literature: Prose and Poetry, 2 vols, 1975; (with U.C. Knoepflmacher) Nature and the Victorian Imagination, 1977; Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis, 1989; A Barfield Reader, 1999. Address: Dept of English, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A.