| 词条 | Philip F. Gura |
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| name = Philip F. Gura | image = | imagesize = 200px | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|6|14}} | birth_place = Ware, Massachusetts, United States | occupation = Scholar, writer, editor, educator | period = | genre = History and literature | subject = Colonial America, Transcendentalism, and religious history | movement = | spouse = Leslie Gura (1979-2015, divorced) | children = David, Katherine and Daniel | signature = | website = {{URL|unc.edu/~gura}} }}Philip F. Gura (born June 14, 1950) is an intellectual and cultural historian. He currently serves as William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he holds appointments in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Religious Studies, and American Studies.[1] Gura was born in Ware, Massachusetts. A graduate of Phillips Academy (1968), he received his AB, magna cum laude, in History and Literature in 1972 from Harvard College, and his PhD, in the History of American Civilization in 1977, from Harvard University, where he lived in Lowell House.[2] He is the author or editor of 13 books, including The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance (1981), A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620–1660 (1984), the prize-winning America's Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century (1999), Buried from the World: Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829–1831 (2001), C. F. Martin and His Guitars, 1796–1873 (2003), Jonathan Edwards: America’s Evangelical (2005), American Transcendentalism: A History (2007), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in non-fiction, The American Antiquarian Society, 1812–2012: A Bicentennial History (2012), Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (2013), Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening (2013), and The Life of William Apess (Pequot). Some of his essays, which number over fifty, have been collected in The Crossroads of American History and Literature (1996). He also serves as an editor for The Norton Anthology of American Literature.[3] Harvard University Press will publish his fourteenth book, Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War, in 2017. Gura is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society,[4] the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Society of American Historians. In 2008, the Division on American Literature to 1800 of the Modern Language Association honored him with its Distinguished Scholar award.[5] He plays the clawhammer banjo in a traditional Appalachian style, known as "old-time."[6] Selected work
Notes1. ^{{cite web|url=http://english.unc.edu/faculty/gurap.html|title=UNC faculty profile|publisher=UNC|year=2009|accessdate=April 8, 2009}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gura, Philip F.}}2. ^http://www.unc.edu/~gura/vitae.html 3. ^http://www.unc.edu/~gura/publications.html 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/membersg.htm|title=Members of the American Antiquarian Society|publisher=American Antiquarian Society|year=2009|accessdate=April 8, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011063114/http://www.americanantiquarian.org/membersg.htm|archivedate=October 11, 2008|df=mdy-all}} 5. ^http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/early_american_literature/v044/44.3.ryan.html 6. ^http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/notes/v057/57.3goertzen.html 9 : Living people|American literary critics|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty|University of Colorado faculty|1950 births|Harvard College alumni|Phillips Academy alumni|Members of the American Antiquarian Society|People from Ware, Massachusetts |
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