A. Owen Aldridge
Alfred Owen Aldridge (December 16, 1915 – January 29, 2005) was a professor of French and comparative literature, founder-editor of the journal Comparative Literature Studies, and author of books on a wide range of literature studies.
Career
He was born in
He published widely and became well known as a pioneer of colonial American literary studies and as an explorer of east–west literary relations. He served as president of the American Comparative Literature Association. In 1963 together with Melvin J. Friedman he founded the journal Comparative Literature Studies, which he edited or co-edited for many years. He retired in 1986 and died on January 29, 2005.
Legacy
The A. Owen Aldridge Prize was established in his memory.
Honors
Following his retirement his lifetime's work was awarded the unusual honor by his colleagues of three festschrifts:
- J. A. Leo Lemay, ed. (1987). Deism, Masonry and the Enlightenment: Essays Honoring Alfred Owen Aldridge. University of Delaware Press.
- François Jost; Melvin J. Friedman, eds. (1990). Aesthetics and the literature of ideas: essays in honor of A. Owen Aldridge. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874133639.
- Masayuki Akiyama; Yiu-nam Leung, eds. (1997). Crosscurrents in the Literatures of Asia and the West: Essays in Honor of A. Owen Aldridge. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874136395.
Works
- Aldridge, Alfred Owen (1951). Shaftesbury and the Deist Manifesto. American Philosophical Society.
- —— (1959). Man of Reason: The Life of Thomas Paine. Lippincott.
- —— (1965). Benjamin Franklin, Philosopher & Man. Lippincott.
- —— (1966). Jonathan Edwards. Washington Square Press.
- —— (1967). Benjamin Franklin and Nature's God. Duke University Press.
- —— (1969). Comparative Literature: Matter and Method. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252000164.
- —— (1971). The Ibero-American Enlightenment. University of Illinois Press.
- —— (1975). Voltaire and the Century of Light. Princeton University Press.
- —— (1976). Franklin and his French Contemporaries. Greenwood Press.
- —— (1982). Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach. Princeton University Press.
- —— (1984). Thomas Paine's American Ideology. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874132601.
- —— (1986). The Re-emergence of World Literature: a Study of Asia and the West. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874132779.
- —— (1993). The Dragon and the Eagle: the Presence of China in the American Enlightenment. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814324554.
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