Christian Gauss AwardShortlist

Given by Phi Beta Kappa Society

Other Names: Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society
27 Works / 29 Items 3,645 Books 112 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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All, Winner (73), Shortlist (29)
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All, 2023 (4), 2022 (5), 2021 (7), 2020 (4), 2019 (4), 2018 (1), 2017 (4)

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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