"A dance to which one's feet can still respond".(Tribute issue to Professor J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona)(Critical essay)

Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, September, 2005 by Faller, Lincoln

Doug Canfield, who died in July 2003 at the age of sixty-two, was the author of six scholarly books and the editor or co-editor of another five. He published a book or two of poetry, and wrote a couple of as yet unpublished plays. He was also the author of more than fifty scholarly articles and reviews, to say nothing of occasional pieces of journalism. A distinguished dixhuitiemiste whose interests in drama and poetry ranged over the literature of the period in French, German, Italian, and Spanish as well as English, and who could write authoritatively--as he did in Word as Bond--on English literature from the medieval period onward, he also produced books and articles on Faulkner and on the literature and film of the American West, especially the Southwest...

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