John Sitter

Biographic Data

ID2081111
NAMEJohn Sitter
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMESitter
SIGNATURESITTER J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth

    John SitterARTICLEISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in…2014Cited by: 3

    Alan Weisman's latest book is important for students of literature and the environment because it vividly presents the foundational if largely invisible subject of ecocriticism: human population growth. Environmental humanists have been nearly as reluctant as religious leaders and politicians to address population, and most surveys of ecocriticism ignore the subject, right up to the 2014 Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment. (Tim…

  • Ecocriticism and Eighteenth‐Century English Studies

    Open AccessErin Drew, John SitterARTICLELiterature Compass2011References: 7

    Although many ecocritical works written by Romanticists and others have neglected the importance of 18th‐century English literature in the development of environmental concern, more recent ecocritical work has begun to pay closer and more sympathetic attention to writers from the end of the 17th century through the 1780s. New approaches to 18th‐century poetry have emphasized an appreciation of natural beauty and fragility as well as utility, and …

  • The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

    Open AccessJohn E Sitter, John SitterBOOKThe Cambridge companion to…2001

    The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh. Chapters consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, appeals to an imagined future, and the mean…

  • Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship

    John Sitter, Robert F GlecknerARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1997

  • Arguments of Augustan Wit

    Calhoun Winton, John SitterARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1994

  • The Material Word: Literate Culture in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    John Sitter, Richard W F Kroll et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1993

  • Arguments of Augustan Wit

    Dustin Griffin, John Sitter et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1993

  • Arguments of Augustan Wit

    Open AccessJohn SitterBOOKArguments of Augustan Wit1991

    Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit. The arguments of Augustan wit reveal preoccupations with the metaphorical dimension of language so distrusted by Locke and others who saw it as fundamentally opposed to the rational mode of judgement. John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, G…

  • Eighteenth-Century British Poets, First Series

    Lionel Basney, John SitterARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1991

  • The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope

    John Sitter, Leopold DamroschARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1989

  • Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England

    Paul J Korshin, John SitterARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1984

  • On the Verge of Politics: Border Tactics for Eighteenth-Century English Studies

    Carol Kay, Terry Eagleton et al.ARTICLEboundary 21984Cited by: 1

  • "The Stranger Within Thee": Concepts of the Self in Late-Eighteenth-Century Literature

    John Sitter, Stephen Cox et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1983

  • Theodicy at Midcentury: Young, Akenside, and Hume

    John Sitter, John E SitterARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1978

    IT IS EMBLEMATIC of the difficulties in understanding mideighteenth-century English poetry and thought that two notable poetic theodicies should have appeared a scant decade after An Essay on Man, the one poem usually regarded by literary historians as a safe summation of period attitudes. Emblematic too, I believe, is the fact that these two answers to Pope in the 1740s, Young's Night Thoughts, the work of an Anglican divine in his sixties, and …

  • Mother, Memory, Muse and Poetry After Pope

    John Sitter, John E SitterARTICLEELH1977