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...work for that basic course. His unusual speaking style, punctuated by rapid gestures and witticisms, is delivered while he stalks about his platform. Aside from English 10, Bate's primary teaching interest is literary criticism, which he attempts to relate to basic human interests, and also the field of eighteenth century literature...
Concentrating especially on the great prose writers of the later eighteenth century, Johnson and Edmund Burke, Bate obviously reacts against what he calls Boswell's "one-sided, tavern room portrait of Johnson." Currently preparing his own book on Johnson, Bate's critical approach follows the line of his subject. "Johnson found it impossible," Bate states, "to criticize justly any literary work without keeping the basic needs and desires of man constantly in mind...
...historian, says the Guide, must weight the prejudices of past writers before accepting their statements as true. Settlers in the seventeenth century, attempting to stimulate immigration and investment "mingled hopes with realities and fiction with fact." Puritans and Quakers alike credited abnormal occurrences with excessive importance. Eighteenth and nineteenth century historians emphasized politics, often to the exclusion of vital social and cultural information...
Doug Boyd was the varsity's only loser, dropping his match one down on the eighteenth...
...career combined scholarship with administrative work. An authority of eighteenth century English literature, Little was particularly interested in the work of David Garrick...