Christian Gauss Award

Given by Phi Beta Kappa Society

Other Names: Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society
98 Works / 100 Items 11,294 Books 232 Reviews 4.1
The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, show more the distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. To be eligible, a literary biography must have a predominantly critical emphasis. show less
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Winner 73

WorkYear
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (Crip, 5) by Dennis Tyler2023
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin2022
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland2021
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price2020
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry2019
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls2018
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin2017
The Poetry of John Milton by Gordon Teskey2016
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner2015
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 by Steven Moore2014
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures by Claudia L. Johnson2013
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs2012
From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature by Randall Fuller2011
Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II by V. A. Kolve2010
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey2009
Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks2008
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George Hutchinson2007
Dickinson's Misery by Virginia Jackson2006
Shakespeare after All by Marjorie Garber2005
Emerson by Lawrence Buell2004
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by R. F. Foster2003
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart2002
Transcendental Wordplay: America'S Romantic Punsters & Search by Michael West2001
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture by Leonard Barkan2000
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing by James Olney1999
The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises by Theodore Ziolkowski1998
The Title to the Poem by Anne Ferry1997
What Is Pastoral? by Paul Alpers1996
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by Joseph Frank1995
The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story by John T. Irwin1994
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature by Eric J. Sundquist1993
Chaucer and the Subject of History by Lee Patterson1992
The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel by Richard D. Altick1991
Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy by Evelyn Barish1990
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Harold Bloom1989
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds1988
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism by Leonard Barkan1987
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack1986
The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats by Peter M. Sacks1985
Swift: The Man, His Works and the Age, Vol. 3: Dean Swift (Volume 3) by Irvin Ehrenpreis1984
The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry by W. R. Johnson1983
The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers by Lawrence I. Lipking1982
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin1981
The Creation of Nikolai Gogol by Donald Fanger1980
The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society by Robert Bechtold Heilman1979
Person, place, and thing in Henry James's novels by Charles Roberts Anderson1978
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 by Joseph Frank1977
T.S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet by Elisabeth Wintersteen Schneider1976
Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings1975
Mandelstam by Clarence Brown1974
Kings, Beasts and Heroes. by Gwyn Jones1973
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner1972
Politics in English Romantic Poetry by Carl Woodring1971
The Burden of the Past and the English Poet by Walter Jackson Bate1970
Shaw the Dramatist by Louis Crompton1969
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith1968
The American 1890s; life and times of a lost generation by Larzer Ziff1967
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster by Wilfred Stone1966
Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 by Geoffrey H. Hartman1965
John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate1964
Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne by Joan Webber1963
The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth1962
Emily Dickinson's poetry; stairway of surprise by Charles Roberts Anderson1961
Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford Paperbacks, No. 149) by Reuben A. Brower1960
The idea of poetry in France; from Houdar de La Motte to Baudelaire by Margaret Gilman1959
Homer and the Heroic Tradition by Cedric H. Whitman1958
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by Walter E. Houghton1957
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate1956
The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century by Louis L. Martz1955
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by Meyer H. Abrams1954
Dante's drama of the mind : a modern reading of the Purgatorio by Francis Fergusson1953
The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture by Jerome Hamilton Buckley1952
Studies in seventeenth-century poetic by Ruth Wallerstein1951

Shortlist 29

WorkYear
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi2023
What Is American Literature by Stavans2023
Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James by Jane F. Thrailkill2023
The Secret Life of Literature by Lisa Zunshine2023
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin2022
Love’s Shadow by Paul A. Bove2022
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders2022
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit2022
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White2022
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland2021
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett2021
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai2021
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai2021
Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) by Namwali Serpell2021
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro2021
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison2020
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch2020
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde2020
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster by Gerard Passannante2020
Sharp by Michelle Dean2019
Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s by George Hutchinson2019
Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick2019
Elements of Surprise by Vera Tobin2019
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History by Joseph North2018
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn2017
Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists by Ross Posnock2017
Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination by Vaughn Rasberry2017
Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism by Alex Woloch2017

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