Author: Rawson Claude Rawson

Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University, USA. He is the Delegate for Literature and Language, Oxford University Press, New York, and a Founding General Editor of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. He is the General Editor of the Blackwell Critical Biographies and the Unwin Critical Library. Rawson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Past President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He has lectured widely in Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Far East, and has written numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books.