John Bender
John Bender
Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Contact:
Building 460, Room 341
Phone: 650 723 3052
bender@stanford.edu
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OVERVIEW:
John Bender's research and teaching focus on the eighteenth century in England and France. His special concerns include the relationship of literature to the visual arts, to philosophy and science, as well as to the sociology of literature and critical theory. He is also on the Comparative Literature faculty. Bender is the author of Spenser and Literary Pictorialism (1972), and Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in 18th-Century England (1987), which received the Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Piranesi, Hogarth, Hume, Goldsmith, Blake, Godwin, and on theoretical issues including fictionality and scientific inquiry. He is co-editor of The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice (1990), Chronotypes: The Construction of Time (1991), The Columbia History of the British Novel (1994), the Oxford World Classics edition of Tom Jones (1996), and Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century (2005).
EDUCATION:
1967: Ph.D., Cornell University
1962: B.A., Princeton University
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Courses
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COMPLIT331CAut2011-12
This course treats the cultural foundations upon which the Enlightenment instituted a public sphere and constituted its relationship to the private (or intimate) sphere. The aim is to explore the invention and naturalization of some of the most fundamental institutions of the Enlightenment -- institutions such as the public, the private, the market, public opinion, literature, and even more basic categories such as the individual, society, culture, knowledge, and politics.
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COMPLIT396LAut2011-12
Required for first-year Ph.D students in English, Modern Thought and Literature, and Comparative Literature. Preparation for surviving as teaching assistants in undergraduate literature courses. Focus is on leading discussions and grading papers.
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COMPLIT353AAut2010-11
A double exploration of experiment in the novel from 1750 into the 19th century. Taking off from Zola's
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COMPLIT396LAut2010-11
Required for first-year Ph.D. students in English Modern Thought and Literature and Comparative Literature (except for Comparative Literature students teaching in a foreign language). Preparation for surviving as teaching assistants in undergraduate literature courses. Focus is on leading discussions and grading papers. Contact instructor for days/times and rooms for meetings.
