
Education: Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1972
Office Location: CAL 203
Office Hours: MWF 3-4
Phone: (512) 471-8370
jdgar@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Satire, The Bible in English and American Literature
Publications
Books:
A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray's Elegy, University of Delaware Press (Newark, 2009), 335 Pp.
Pietas from Vergil to Dryden, Penn State University Press (University Park, PA, 1992), 340 +xi Pp.
Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric, University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1975), 263 + xiv Pp.
Selected Articles:
''Pietoso stile: Italian Translations of Gray's Elegy to 1900,'' MLN Vol. 121, No. 1 (2006), 167-186.
''Gray's Elegy in Russian Translation,'' Babel: An International Journal of Translation 51: 1 (2005), 49-61.
''The Universe of Dryden's Fables,'' Studies in English Literature (Summer 1981), 409-23.
''Dryden and the Birth of Hercules,'' Studies in Philology, LXXVII (Spring 1980), 180-201, reprinted in Critical Essays on John Dryden, G.K. Hall (New York, 1997), 198-216.
''Lively and Laborious: Characterization in Gibbon's Metahistory,'' Modern Philology (November 1978), 163-78.
''Gibbon and 'the treacherous language of panegyrics','' Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 1977), 40-62.