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David Daiches

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Born: September 01 1912

Died: 1414 07 20052005

David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.

He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background - the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. Dr. Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.

During World War II, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Service and drafting speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.

Daiches' first published work was The Place of Meaning in Poetry, published in 1935. He was a prolific writer, producing works on English literature, Scottish literature, literary history and criticism as well as the broader role of literature in society and culture.

Daiches was the father of Jenni Calder, also a Scottish literary historian.

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David Daiches

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Books from David Daiches

A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 2: The Restoration to the Present Day

A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 4: The Romantics to the Present Day

نظریه‌های رمان: از رئالیسم تا پسامدرنیسم

Critical Approaches to Literature

Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood

Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas

Charles Edward Stuart: The Life and Times of Bonnie Prince Charlie

James Boswell and his World

Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction

Storia della letteratura inglese. 3 volumi

A Hotbed of Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment, 1730 - 1790

Letteratura inglese e americana

Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction: A Critical Anthology

The Paradox of Scottish Culture: The Eighteenth Century Experience

Virginia Woolf

Cencrastus No. 6: Autumn 1981

The Avenel Companion to English and American Literature

A Critical History of English Literature, Volume 4: The Romantics to the Present Day

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun: Selected Political Writings and Speeches

Robert Burns