John Bender
Jean G. & Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Department of English / Department of Comparative Literature - Stanford University
Contact Info
Email: bender@stanford.edu
Location
450 Serra Mall, Building 460, Room 201
Stanford, CA, 94305-2087United States
About:
John Bender's research and teaching focus on the eighteenth century in England and France. His special concerns include the relationship of literature to the visual arts, to philosophy and science, as well as to the sociology of literature and critical theory. He is also on the Comparative Literature faculty. Bender is the author of Spenser and Literary Pictorialism (1972), and Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in 18th-Century England (1987), which received the Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Piranesi, Hogarth, Hume, Goldsmith, Blake, Godwin, and on theoretical issues including fictionality and scientific inquiry. He is co-editor of The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice (1990), Chronotypes: The Construction of Time (1991), The Columbia History of the British Novel (1994), the Oxford World Classics edition of Tom Jones (1996), Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century (2005), and The Culture of Diagram (2010).
