Steven Nathan Zwicker is an American

United States

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 literary

Literature

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 scholar

Academia

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 and the Stanley Elkin

Stanley Elkin

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 Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

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Biography

Zwicker is an expert on Restoration-era English literature

English literature

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 and politics and is the author of Dryden's

John Dryden

John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...

 Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation (1972), Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (1984), and Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (1993). He has edited six volumes and published more than two dozen essays in journals and volumes in the United States and abroad.

Zwicker was born in San Diego, California

San Diego, California

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. He received his BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the University of California, Los Angeles

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 (1965) and his MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 (1966) and PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 (1969) from Brown University

Brown University

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. He has been a member of the Washington University faculty since 1969.

Works

• Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1972.
• Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
• Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

As editor or contributor

• Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England. Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.
• The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740. Edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution. Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.
• John Dryden: A Tercentenary Miscellany. Edited by Susan Green and Steven N. Zwicker. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2001.
• Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England. Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden. Edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

External links

• Steven Zwicker's faculty page at Washington University in St. Louis
  Washington University in St. Louis
  Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...