Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
1 appearances
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Edition 22 (2017) Winner
Gillian Beer
ジリアン・ビア
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Aliases:
Gillian Patricia Kempster Thomas / Gillian P K Thomas / Dame Gillian Beer
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1935-01-27 （Surrey, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Surrey, England → Cambridge, England
Career
- Occupations
- literary critic, academic, President of Clare Hall
- Active Years
- 1960-2025
- Affiliations
- Girton College, Cambridge, Clare Hall, Cambridge
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Influenced
- Virginia Woolf scholars
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Anne's College, Oxford | Faculty of English | English Literature | — | — | United Kingdom |
St Anne's College, Oxford
Faculty of English
/ English Literature
Year of Graduation:
1957
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Fellow of the British Academy | — | — | British Academy | 受賞 |
| 1998 | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire | — | — | British Monarch | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism | Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll | — | University of Iowa | 受賞 |
Fellow of the British Academy
1991
Organization:
British Academy
Result:
受賞
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1998
Organization:
British Monarch
Result:
受賞
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2017
Work:
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Organization:
University of Iowa
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Darwin's Plots
1983 Literary CriticismRelates the form of Victorian novels to Darwinist thinking.
DarwinismVictorian literatureScience and literature
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
2016 Literary CriticismExplores Lewis Carroll's Alice in the Victorian world.
Lewis CarrollVictorian era
Bibliography
- Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830–1970: essays in honour of Gillian Beer
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Victorian studiesIntersections of literature and science
- Recurring Motifs
- Darwinian ideasEvolution
Legacy
Renowned for criticism on relations between literature and science, especially Victorian novels and Darwinism.
Trivia
- Served as chair of the Booker Prize judges in 1997.