Graham Robb
Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL (born 2 June 1958, in Manchester) is a British author and critic specialising in French literature.[1]
Biography
Born at
). In 1982, Robb enteredPhD in French literature. He was then awarded a junior research fellowship at Exeter College in the University of Oxford (1987–1990),[3]
before leaving academia.
Robb won the
klimata; as evidence he presented artistic geometries, road surveying, centuriations and other archaeologically attested pre-Roman alignments.[5]
Elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, Dr Robb was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009. Following the publication of his French translation of Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris, he was awarded the Medal of the City of Paris
in 2012.
Dr Robb and fellow
academic, Margaret Hambrick, married in 1986.[6]
Bibliography
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Books
- Le corsaire-satan en silhouette : le milieu journalistique de la jeunesse de Baudelaire (in French). 1985.
- Baudelaire lecteur de Balzac (1988), ISBN 2-7143-0279-3(in French)
- Baudelaire (1989), ISBN 0-241-12458-1, translation of 1987 French text by Prof. Claude Pichois
- La Poésie de Baudelaire et la poésie française, 1838–1852 (1993), ISBN 2-7007-1657-4, criticism (in French)
- Balzac: A Biography (1994), ISBN 0-330-33237-6
- Unlocking Mallarmé (1996), ISBN 0-03-000648-1
- Victor Hugo (1997), ISBN 0-330-33707-6
- Rimbaud (2000), ISBN 0-330-48282-3
- Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century (2003), ISBN 0-330-48223-8
- The Discovery of France. A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War (2007), illustrated, 454 pp. ISBN 0-393-05973-1
- Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris (2010), ISBN 978-0-393-06724-8
- The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe, ISBN 0-393-08163-X
- Cols and Passes of the British Isles (2016), ISBN 978-1846148736
- The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England (2018), ISBN 978-0393285321
- France : an adventure history. 2022.[a]
Book reviews
| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Robb, Graham (June 28, 2007). "In his nightmare city". The New York Review of Books. 54 (11): 52–54. | Vargas Llosa, Mario. The temptation of the impossible : Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. Translated from the Spanish by John King. |
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- Notes
- ^ Briefly reviewed in the September 5, 2022 issue of The New Yorker, p.59.
See also
References
- ^ Oxford Companion to English Literature (2009)
- ^ Elisa Rolle Live Journal
- ^ Rectors and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford, 1901-2005 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Balzac: La Comédie humaine (edn critique en ligne)" (in French). Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ Exeter College, Oxford Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ International Who's Who (2004)
External links
- List of Dr Robb's contributions to The New York Review of Books
- List of Dr Robb's contributions to the London Review of Books
- Celtic Paths, Illuminated by a Sundial : Graham Robb's Theory on Celtic Migrations, Rachel Donadio, The New York Times, 18 November 2013.
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