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Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2008: Philip F. Gura

Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2008: Philip F. Gura Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2008 Philip F. Gura The Division of American Literature to 1800 is charged to recognize on rare occasions the extraordinary contributions of scholars to early American studies. In 2008, we honor the work of Philip F. Gura. Earlier this year, when I learned that the MLA Division of American Literature to 1800 would be honoring Philip F. Gura with its Distinguished Scholar Award, the news at first seemed entirely fitting but also oddly premature and even misplaced--at least to the uninitiated. Ordinarily, one would expect that a major award of this kind might be delivered with a kind of backward view: into the hands of a scholar who, just on the verge of retirement, receives the honor at the conclusion of a long career after having contributed brilliantly to the profession. But instead, this year's award honors a perennially resourceful and productive researcher whose energies show no signs of flagging, who even now is preparing yet another new book for publication, this latest volume a history of the American Antiquarian Society, the learned society whose resources have been so vital to his own research over the decades. The remarkable http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2008: Philip F. Gura

Ryan, James Emmett.
Early American Literature , Volume 44 (3) – Oct 30, 2009
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Modern Language Association Honored Scholar of Early American Literature, 2008 Philip F. Gura The Division of American Literature to 1800 is charged to recognize on rare occasions the extraordinary contributions of scholars to early American studies. In 2008, we honor the work of Philip F. Gura. Earlier this year, when I learned that the MLA Division of American Literature to 1800 would be honoring Philip F. Gura with its Distinguished Scholar Award, the news at first seemed entirely fitting but also oddly premature and even misplaced--at least to the uninitiated. Ordinarily, one would expect that a major award of this kind might be delivered with a kind of backward view: into the hands of a scholar who, just on the verge of retirement, receives the honor at the conclusion of a long career after having contributed brilliantly to the profession. But instead, this year's award honors a perennially resourceful and productive researcher whose energies show no signs of flagging, who even now is preparing yet another new book for publication, this latest volume a history of the American Antiquarian Society, the learned society whose resources have been so vital to his own research over the decades. The remarkable

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