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Annabel M. Patterson (born August 9, 1936) is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.

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Born in England, Patterson emigrated to Canada in 1957. There she enrolled at the University of Toronto, where her B.A. work received the highest prize, the Governor General's Gold Medal. She received her M.A "with distinction" and her Ph.D. from the University of London in 1963 and 1965, respectively. [1] Since then she has taught at Toronto, York University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and Duke University. In 1994 she moved to Yale as the Karl Young Professor of English, [2] and was made Sterling Professor in 2001, and became a professor emerita in 2005. [3] She was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Toronto in 2014. [4]

She has written over 16 books and about 70 refereed articles on topics as varied as Holinshed’s Chronicles, eighteenth-century libel law, the reception of Virgil’s eclogues in Europe, editions of Aesop’s fables, censorship, liberalism, parliamentary history, as well as Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, John Locke, and of course Andrew Marvell, whose canon she helped reshape. [5]

Awards

Patterson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983); [6] a senior fellowship at the Society of Humanities, Cornell University (1983-1984); [7] the Andrew Mellon Chair of the Humanities at Duke; a Mellon Fellowship, National Humanities Center; and a Mellon Emeritus Fellowship at Yale. She won the Harry Levin Comparative Literature prize (1987) for Pastoral and Ideology [8] and the John Ben Snow Prize for Reading Holinshed’s Chronicles (1994). [9] She was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000). [10] In April 2008, Patterson delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley. [3] In 2014, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto. [2] She was president and honored scholar of the Milton Society of America in 2002. [11] [12]

Publications

Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970)

Marvell and the Civic Crown (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978)

Roman Image (editor) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984)

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References

  1. ↑ Annabel Patterson The Point of It yale.edu
  2. 1 2 "Yale scholar Annabel Patterson honored by University of Toronto". June 18, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "04.02.2008 - Literary scholar Annabel Patterson to deliver Tanner Lectures". www.berkeley.edu.
  4. ↑ "Honorary degree for U of T alumna Annabel Patterson, the leading scholar of early modern censorship and print culture - Book History & Print Culture". bhpctoronto.com.
  5. ↑ "Annabel Patterson - Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty". emeritus.yale.edu.
  6. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Annabel M. Patterson".
  7. ↑ "1966-1985: Fellowship Archive - Society for the Humanities Cornell Arts & Sciences". societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu.
  8. ↑ "Harry Levin Prize - American Comparative Literature Association". www.acla.org.
  9. ↑ Smuts, Malcolm (August 28, 1996). The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521554398 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Academy Member Connection". www.amacad.org. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  11. ↑ The Milton Society of America oaktrust.library.tamu.edu
  12. ↑ "Honored Scholars - The Milton Society of America". miltonsociety.commons.gc.cuny.edu.
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