David S. Reynolds
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David S. Reynolds | |
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 David S. Reynolds | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Amherst College B.A. magna cum laude University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. |
| Occupation(s) | educator, critic, biographer, historian |
David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American
Early life and education
Reynolds was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 30, 1948, and was raised nearby in Barrington, located near Narragansett Bay. He attended the Moses Brown School and the Providence Country Day School before moving on to Amherst College, where he received a B. A. in 1970.
After teaching high school English at the Providence Country Day School for a year, he pursued his graduate studies in American literature and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1979.
Teaching career
Reynolds has taught
Writings and influence
Cultural Biography
Reynolds is a proponent of cultural biography, contextualizing historical figures in their era. He was influenced by the "
American history
Reynolds highlights the intersection of politics and culture consistent with Abraham Lincoln's view that "public sentiment is everything... he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions."
Literary criticism
Reynolds challenges the once-prevalent view—introduced by the
Family
Reynolds's wife, whose professional name is Suzanne Nalbantian, is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Long Island University and specializes in the interdisciplinary relationship between literature and neuroscience. Her six books include Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience, The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives (coedited with Paul M. Matthews and James B. McClelland), and Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in the Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin.
Awards and honors
- Bancroft Prize, for Walt Whitman's America
- Lincoln Prize, for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- Top Ten Books of the Year," 2020, Wall Street Journal, for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- Ambassador Book Award, for Walt Whitman's America
- National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, for Walt Whitman's America
- Christian Gauss Award (Phi Beta Kappa Society), for Beneath the American Renaissance
- Gustavus Myers Book Award, for John Brown, Abolitionist
- Kansas Notable Book, for John Brown, Abolitionist
- Notable Books of the Year, The New York Times Book Review, for Beneath the American Renaissance, Walt Whitman's America, and Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson
- Best Books of the Year, The Washington Post, for Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson and Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year, for Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America
- Best Books of the Year, Kirkus Reviews, for Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America and Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- Best Books of the Year, Christian Science Monitor, for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, Honorable Mention, American Studies Association, for Beneath the American Renaissance
- Who's Who in the World(2000 edition to the present)
- Selected as Honorary Co-chair of the New-York Historical Society, 2009–present
- Fellow, Society of American Historians (honorary elected position), 1997–present
- Fellow, American Antiquarian Society (honorary elected position), 1996–present
Bibliography
Books
- Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. Penguin Press, 2020.
- Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. W.W. Norton, 2012.
- Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson. HarperCollins, 2008.
- ''John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights''. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
- Walt Whitman. Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
- Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville''. Harvard University Press, 1989.
- George Lippard. Twayne Publishers, 1982.
- Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America. Harvard University Press, 1981.
Books (editor)
- Lincoln's Selected Writings: A Norton Critical Edition.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly [The Splendid Edition], by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman.
- Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, 150th Anniversary Edition.
- George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writings of an American Radical, 1822–1854.
- The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall, by George Lippard.
- Venus in Boston and Other Tales of 19th Century City Life, by George Thompson (coedited with Kimberly Gladman).
- The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature (coedited with Debra J. Rosenthal).
Book about David S. Reynolds
- Above the American Renaissance: David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies. Edited by Harold K. Bush and Brian Yothers.
Notes
- ^ "Books by David S. Reynolds". Archived from the original on August 14, 2020.
- ^ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), page 627.
- ^ Whitman, Poetry and Prose (New York: Library of America, 1996), 23; Whitman, Prose Works, 1872, edited by Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1964), II: page 473.
- ^ David Zarefsky, "Public Sentiment Is Everything": Lincoln's View of Political Persuasion," Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 15:2 (Summer 1994), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.2629860.0015.204
- ^ David S. Reynolds, George Lippard (Boston: Twayne, 1982) and George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writings of an American Radical, 1822–1854 (New York: Peter Lang, 1986)
