Edwin Sill Fussell
Edwin Sill Fussell, Ph.D. (July 4, 1922 - August 27, 2002) was a professor of English literature at the University of California at San Diego. He was the elder brother of Paul Fussell.
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[edit] Early life
Fussell was born in Pasadena, CA and grew up there [1]. His father, Paul Longstreth Fussell (15 January 1895-16 July 1973), was a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers. His mother was born Wilhma Wilson Sill in Illinois 21 August 1893 and died 23 March 1971. In 1943 Fussell earned a B.A. degree from Pomona College. Thereafter he joined the U.S. Navy, serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1949.
[edit] Career
Fussell first taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He refused to sign a loyalty oath during the era of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's "communist-hunting" in the early 1950s, losing his professorship as a result. Fussell then went to Pomona College, his alma mater, where he taught American Literature. After teaching at the Claremont Graduate School, Fussell joined the faculty of UC-San Diego. He retired in 1991 [2].
[edit] Retirement
During his retirement, Fussell lived in Paris and Rome. He still wrote, especially about Henry James, Chateaubriand, and Balzac [3]. Fussell died in August 2002 in La Jolla, CA [4].
[edit] Works
- Frontier: American Literature and the American West (1966) [5]
- Lucifer in Harness:American Meter, Metaphor, and Diction (1973) [6]
- The Catholic Side of Henry James (1994) [7]
[edit] References
- ^ http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=paul&gsln=fussell&_81004010=1924&msbpn=68368&msbpn__ftp=Pasadena%2c+California%2c+USA&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=89998053&recoff=1+2&db=1930usfedcen&indiv=1, Accessed 10-4-2009.
- ^ Cohen AJJ: In Memoriam-- Edwin Sill Fussell, Professor Emeritus of Literature, 1922-2002, http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/assembly/memorial_resolutions/FussellEdwinSill.pdf, Accessed 9-20-2009.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ In Memoriam: Edwin S. Fussell, PMLA 2003; 118: 1066–1067.
- ^ Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1966. ASIN: B000X9YX3S.
- ^ Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1973. ISBN 0691062382.
- ^ Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1994. ISBN 0521100585
