Loewenstein, Joseph (F.) 1952-

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LOEWENSTEIN, Joseph (F.) 1952-

PERSONAL: Born October 20, 1952, in Charleston, WV; son of Stanley M. (in business) and Jean Sinclair (an educational psychologist; maiden name, Foster) Loewenstein; married C. Lynne Tatlock, March 12, 1988. Education: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1974; Columbia University, M.A., 1975; Warburg Institute, London, graduate study, 1975-76; Yale University, M.A., 1978, Ph.D., 1982.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of English, Box 1122, Washington University, Lindell-Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63188-1122. E-mail[email protected].

CAREER: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, visiting instructor in English, 1980-81; Washington University, St. Louis, MO, assistant professor, 1981-86, associate professor of English, beginning 1986, department chair, beginning 1992.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America (regional delegate, 1985-88), Renaissance Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa.

WRITINGS:

Responsive Readings: Versions of Echo in Pastoral, Epic, and the Jonsonian Masque, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1984.

Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2002.

The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 2002.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Times Literary Supplement, September 13, 2002, Harold Love, review of The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright, p. 32.

online

Managing Information Newsletter Online, http://managinginformation.com/ (January 15, 2003), Paul Pedley, review of The Author's Due.*