Professor George R. Levine 
Office: 503 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2575 X.1048
FAX: (716) 645-5980
E-mail: grlevine@acsu.buffalo.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University 1954-61

M.A., Columbia University, 1951-52

B.A., Tufts College, 1947-51

Academic
Experience:

Professor, SUNY/Buffalo, 1970 – present

Provost and Dean, Faculty of Arts & Letters, 1975-81

Associate Professor, SUNY/Buffalo, 1966-70

Assistant Professor, SUNY/Buffalo, 1963-66

Instructor, Northwestern University, 1959-63

Lecturer, Columbia University, 1956

Special Fields:

18TH Century Literature, The Novel



Publications

Books

Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and Other Satires, Editor (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 1995)

Harp on the Shore: Thoreau and the Sea, completed and edited for Willard H. Bonner, (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1985)

Henry Fielding and the Dry Mock: A Study of the Techniques of Irony in His Early Works (The Hague and Paris: Mouton and Co., 1967)

Essays

"Fielding’ ‘Defense’ of the Licensing Act of 1737," English Language Notes (March 1965), 193-6

"Pictorial and Poetic Design in two Sons of Innocence," PMLA (May 1967), 257-64. Co-authored with Thomas E. Connolly

"Recognizing Mother" (on Blake), The Blake Newsletter (December 1967) 17-18. Co-author with Thomas E. Connolly

"Dryden’s Inarticulate Poesy: Music and the Davidic King in Absalom and Architophel," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. I, No. 3 (Summer 1968)

"Two Songs of Innocence," PLMA (January 1969), 137-40. Co-author with Thomas E. Connolly

"Satiric Intent and Baroque Design in Donne’s ‘Go and Catch a Falling Star’," Die Neueren Sprachen, Vol. 7 (July 1971), (New Series)

"Poetry and the Group Process: An Experiment in Classroom Dynamics," New Directions in Teaching (Winter 1974), 1-17. Co-author with Gerald Thorner. Printed earlier in German translation as "Dichtung und Gruppenprozess: Ein Experiment in Unterrichtsdynamik," in Prospektiven Morphologischer PsychologieII, ed. W. Salber (Dusseldorf, W. Germany, 1972)

"The Arrogance of Keat’s Grecian Urn," Essays in Literature (Spring 1983), 39-44


Reviews

Of Ronald Paulson’s The Fictions of Satire in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature an the Arts, vol. X, No. 3 (Summer 1968)

Of C. J. Rawson’s Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol 74, No. 1 (January 1975), 131-34

Of Anne William’s Prophetic Strain: The Greater Lyric in the Eighteenth Century in The Eighteenth Century: a Current Bibliography, 1985, n.s. 10, V, 5445-6

Of Jean-Pierre Mileur’s Literary Revisionism and the Burden of Modernity in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 1987

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