Bender, John B.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

John Bryant Bender earned his A.B. in English at Princeton University in 1962 and his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1967. He has been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1967. His publications include SPENSER AND LITERARY PICTORIALISM (1972); IMAGINING THE PENITENTIARY : FICTION AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF MIND IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND (1987); and CHRONOTYPES : THE CONSTRUCTION OF TIME (1991), which he edited with David E. Wellbery.

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