Neil Fraistat | |
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Nationality | American |
Awards | Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize, Keats-Shelley Association Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature,Digital humanities |
Sub-discipline | Romanticism,Textual scholarship |
Institutions | University of Maryland,College Park |
Notable works | The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Neil R. Fraistat is an American academic,literary scholar,and digital humanist. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland,College Park and is known for his contributions to Romantic literature,textual scholarship,and digital humanities. [1] [2]
Fraistat earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania,where he specialized in Romanticism,textual studies,and digital humanities. [3] [4]
Fraistat is the co-general editor of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley,an eight-volume critical edition,and co-editor of Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition). [5] He was a co-founder and general editor of the Romantic Circles website,a key digital resource for scholars of Romanticism. He is the general editor of Shelley-Godwin Archive,which focuses on digital editions of manuscripts from the Shelley and Godwin families. [6] [7]
Fraistat was the Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) for twelve years,where he fostered interdisciplinary research in digital humanities. [5] [8] He co-founded and co-chaired centerNet,an international network of digital humanities centers,and served as Chair of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). [9]
He has published extensively in journals such as PMLA ,Studies in Romanticism, Digital Humanities Quarterly ,and Literary and Linguistic Computing. [10] [11]
Fraistat has served as President and Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. [12] He has been actively involved in the advisory councils of organizations such as the Association for Computers and the Humanities,Project MUSE,the Society for Textual Scholarship,and NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship). Additionally,he has served on the editorial boards of journals including Studies in Romanticism,Keats-Shelley Journal,Romanticism,Literary and Linguistic Computing,and Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. [5]
Fraistat’s scholarly contributions have been recognized with numerous awards,including:
He has authored or edited eleven books,including:
"The Necessity of Atheism" is an essay on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,printed in 1811 by Charles and William Phillips in Worthing while Shelley was a student at University College,Oxford.
The Cenci. A Tragedy,in Five Acts (1820) is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819,and inspired by a real Roman family,the House of Cenci. Shelley composed the play in Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno,from May to 5 August 1819. The work was published by Charles and James Ollier in London in 1819. The Livorno edition was printed in Livorno,Italy by Shelley himself in a run of 250 copies. Shelley told Thomas Love Peacock that he arranged for the printing himself because in Italy "it costs,with all duties and freightage,about half of what it would cost in London." Shelley sought to have the play staged,describing it as "totally different from anything you might conjecture that I should write;of a more popular kind... written for the multitude." Shelley wrote to his publisher Charles Ollier that he was confident that the play "will succeed as a publication." A second edition appeared in 1821,his only published work to go into a second edition during his lifetime.
"To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound by Charles and James Ollier in London.
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 and published in 1817.
Queen Mab;A Philosophical Poem;With Notes,published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes,is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822),the English Romantic poet.
Jerome John McGann is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Betty T. Bennett (1935–2006) was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) at American University. She was previously Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and acting provost of Pratt Institute from 1979 to 1985. Among her numerous awards and honors,Bennett was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and fellow of American Council of Learned Societies. She won the Keats-Shelley Association of America - Distinguished Scholar Award in 1992 and was Founding President,Phi Beta Kappa,Zeta Chapter at American University. Born in Brooklyn,New York,Bennett graduated from Brooklyn College magna cum laude and later received a master's degree (1962) and PhD (1970) in English and American literature from New York University.
"A Defence of Poetry" is an unfinished essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in February and March 1821 that the poet put aside and never completed. The text was published posthumously in 1840 in Essays,Letters from Abroad,Translations and Fragments. Its final sentence expresses Shelley's famous proposition that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Mont Blanc:Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni is an ode by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem was composed between 22 July and 29 August 1816 during Shelley's journey to the Chamonix Valley,and intended to reflect the scenery through which he travelled. "Mont Blanc" was first published in 1817 in Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley's History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France,Switzerland,Germany and Holland,which some scholars believe to use "Mont Blanc" as its culmination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views,Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime,but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death,and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets,including Robert Browning,Algernon Charles Swinburne,Thomas Hardy,and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman,a lyric poet without rival,and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."
Romantic Circles is an academic peer-reviewed website dedicated to the study of Romantic literature and culture,featuring online editions of many texts of the Romantic era,as well as essays devoted to Romantic literature,culture,and theory.
Michael O'Neill was an English poet and scholar,specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry. He published four volumes of original poetry;his academic writing was praised as "beautifully and lucidly written".
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;or,The Modern Prometheus (1818),which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband,the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire was a poetry collection written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and his sister Elizabeth which was printed by Charles and William Phillips in Worthing and published by John Joseph Stockdale in September 1810. The work was Shelley's first published volume of poetry. Shelley wrote the poems in collaboration with his sister Elizabeth. The poems were written before Shelley entered the University of Oxford.
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson was a collection of poetry published in November,1810 by Percy Bysshe Shelley and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg while they were students at Oxford University. The pamphlet was subtitled:"Being Poems found amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who attempted the Life of the King in 1786. Edited by John Fitzvictor." The pamphlet was published by John Munday and Henry Slatter in Oxford and consisted of fictional fragments that were in the nature of a hoax and prank or burlesque.
"The Devil's Walk:A Ballad" was a major poetical work published as a broadside by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812. The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines. The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government. The poem was modelled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. The work is important in Shelley's development and evolution of writings that castigate and criticise the British government to achieve political and economic reform.
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an international research center that works with humanities in the 21st century. A collaboration among the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities,Libraries,and Office of Information Technology,MITH cultivates research agendas clustered around digital tools,text mining and visualization,and the creation and preservation of electronic literature,digital games and virtual worlds.
Jeffrey N. Cox is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in English Literature and Humanities and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than forty scholarly articles. Cox specializes in English and European Romanticism,cultural theory,and cultural studies. He is a leading scholar of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century drama and theater;of the Cockney School of poets,which included,among others,John Keats,Percy Shelley,and Leigh Hunt;and of the poetry of William Wordsworth.
Since the initial publication of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein;or,The Modern Prometheus in 1818,there has existed uncertainty about the extent to which Mary Shelley's husband,Percy Bysshe Shelley,contributed to the text. Whilst the novel was conceived and mainly written by Mary,Percy is known to have provided input in editing and publishing the manuscript. Some critics have alleged that Percy had a greater role—even the majority role—in the creation of the novel,though mainstream scholars have generally dismissed these claims as exaggerated or unsubstantiated. Based on a transcription of the original manuscript,it is currently believed that Percy contributed between 4,000 and 5,000 words to the 72,000 word novel.