Harry M. Solomon, Hollifield Professor of Literature,
received his PhD from Duke University. He specializes in eighteenth-century
British literature and philosophy and recent literary and cultural
criticism. He has written biographies and critical studies of Sir
Richard Blackmore, Alexander Pope, and Robert Dodsley.
He has served as elected chair of the Auburn University faculty and in 1989 was awarded the Auburn Faculty Achievement Award in the Humanities. He is currently working on a reinterpretation and vindication of British Enlightenment ideology.
Representative Publications
Sir Richard Blackmore. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1981.
The Rape of the Text: Reading and Misreading Pope's "Essay on Man." Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1993.
The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the New Age of Print. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
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