Derek Brewer
Derek Brewer | |
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| Born | Derek Stanley Brewer 13 July 1923 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Died | 23 October 2008 (aged 85) Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Magdalen College, Oxford |
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Derek Stanley Brewer (13 July 1923 – 23 October 2008) was a Welsh medieval scholar, author and publisher.
Life
Born in
Master
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Brewer was one of the most recognized
Chaucer scholars of modern times—his Chaucer and His World (1978, reissued 2000) "could be said to have started a whole new genre in historical literary biography."[3] He was also the founder in 1972 of an academic press named for him, D. S. Brewer, now Boydell & Brewer
, which made a mark publishing scholarly work neglected by the larger presses.
He died in Cambridge, England, a month after the death of his wife Elisabeth. Obituaries in all the main British newspapers and blogs in the US speak highly of his love of literature and the profession,[4] his advocacy of struggling academics of the medieval period to get their work published,[5] his encouragement of female students (a rarity in the medieval field during much of his lifetime),[5] and his courtesy and friendliness.[6]
Select bibliography
Books authored and edited
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlement of Foulys. Ed. Derek Brewer. London: Nelson, 1960.
- Chaucer, the Critical Heritage. Ed. Derek Brewer. London, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. ISBN 0-7100-8497-8.
- Chaucer and His World. London: Eyre Methuen, 1978. ISBN 0-413-34340-5.
- Symbolic Stories: Traditional Narratives of the Family Drama in English Literature. Cambridge: Brewer; Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield, 1980. ISBN 0-8476-6900-9.
- Traditional Stories and Their Meanings. London: English Association, 1983. ISBN 0-900232-13-7.
- An Introduction to Chaucer. London, New York: Longman, 1984. ISBN 0-582-49356-0.
- Studies in Medieval English Romances: Some New Approaches. Ed. Derek Brewer. Cambridge: Brewer, 1988.
- A Companion to the Gawain-Poet. Ed. Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997. ISBN 978-0-85991-433-8.
Articles
- “The Tutor: A Portrait,” in C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, James T. Como, editor, 1979, 41-67.
- "Chaucer and the Bible." In Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds., Philologia Anglica: Essays Presented to Professor Yoshio Terasawa on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988. 270-84.
- "Chaucer's Poetic Style." In Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds., The Cambridge Chaucer Companion. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986. 227-42.
- "Orality and Literacy in Chaucer." In Willi Ertzgräber and Sabine Volk, eds., Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im englischen Mittelalter. Script Oralia 5. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988. 85-119.
- "Contributions to a Chaucer Word-Book from Troilus Book IV." In Michio Kawai, ed., Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honor of Michio Masui. English Research Association of Hiroshima. Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991. 27-52.
- "Arithmetic and the Mentality of Chaucer." In Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds., Literature in Fourteenth-Century England: The J. A. W. BennettMemorial Lectures, Perugia, 1981-1982. Tübingen: Narr; Cambridge: Brewer, 1983. 155-64.
- "Chaucer's Venuses." In Juliette Dor, ed., A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens Fonck. Liège: Université de Liège, 1992. 30-40.
References
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- National Review Online(online)
- ^ Derek Brewer Obituary, The Daily Telegraph (online)
- ^ Derek Brewer Obituary, Unlocked Wordhoard (blog)
- ^ a b Derek Brewer Obituary, The Independent
- ^ Derek Brewer Obituary, The Guardian
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