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James A. Winn
winnjama@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/winnjama

Professor of English; Education: B. A., Princeton; Ph.D., Yale. 

Teaching and Research Interests : Restoration and 18th-century English literature; literature and the other arts

Selected PublicationsThe Poetry of War (2008); The Pale of Words: Reflections on the Humanities and Performance (1998); "When Beauty Fires the Blood": Love and the Arts in the Age of Dryden (1992); John Dryden and his World (1987); Unsuspected Eloquence: A History of the Relations between Poetry and Music (1981); A Window in the Bosom: The Letters of Alexander Pope (1977); "'A Versifying Maid of Honour': Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and Adonis," RES (2007); "'Thy wars brought nothing about': Dryden's Critique of Military Heroism," The Seventeenth Century (2006); "Dryden's Songs," in Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden, ed. Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak (2004); "Past and Present in Dryden's Fables," Huntington Library Quarterly (2001); "Dissonance: 1613-1798," Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, ed. Howard Weinbrot and Peter Schakel (2001); "'According to my Genius': Dryden's Translation of 'The First Book of Homer's Ilias'," in Tercentenary Essays on John Dryden, ed. Paul Hammond and David Hopkins (2000); "Theatrical Culture II: Theatre and Music, 1656-1728," in The Cambridge Companion to Restoration English Literature (1997); "Heroic Song: A Proposal for a Revised History of English Theatre and Opera, 1656-1711," Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (1997); "An Old Historian Looks at the New Historicism," in Comparative Studies in Society and History (1993); "'Dryden's Epistle before Creech's Lucretius': A Study in Restoration Ghostwriting," Philological Quarterly (1992); "Bach at 300: Words, Notes, and Numbers," New York Times Book Review (1985); "The Beatles as Artists: A Meditation for December 9th," Michigan Quarterly Review (1984); "Pope Plays the Rake: His Letters to Ladies and the Making of the Eloisa," in The Art of Alexander Pope (1979)

Work in Progress : "Culture and Politics in the Reign of Queen Anne."