Stanford Luce
Stanford Leonard Luce Jr | |
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| Born | May 19, 1923 |
| Died | March 26, 2007 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, OH |
Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19, 1923 – March 26, 2007) was an American academician known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline and for his English translations of Jules Verne books, especially The Kip Brothers and The Mighty Orinoco, which he was the first to translate into English.
Biography
[edit]Luce was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Agnes Foote Luce and Stanford L. Luce Sr. He received a Ph.D. in French studies from Yale University. He died at the age of 83 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Works
[edit]- Jules Verne, moralist, writer, scientist (1953), first English Ph.D. dissertation on Jules Verne, Yale University[1][2]
- A Glossary of Céline's Fiction, with English Translations (1979), Quality Books, ISBN 978-0-89196-057-7
- A Half-century of Céline: An Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982 with William K. Buckley (1983), Garland Pub., ISBN 978-0-8240-9191-0
- Céline and His Critics: Scandals and Paradox (1986), Anma Libri, ISBN 978-0-915838-59-2
- Celine's Pamphlets: An Overview (199*), self-published, OCLC 82916731
Translations
[edit]- Jules Verne, The Mighty Orinoco (French: Le Superbe Orénoque), with Arthur B. Evans, Walter James Miller (2002), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6511-2
- Jules Verne, The Begum's Millions (French: Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum), with Arthur B. Evans and Peter Schulman (2005), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6796-3
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Conversations with Professor Y (French: Entretiens avec le professeur Y) (2006), Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 978-1-56478-449-0
- Jules Verne, The Kip Brothers (French: Les Frères Kip), with Arthur B. Evans and Jean-Michel Margot (2007), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6704-8
References
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Walter James Miller. "As Verne Smiles". Retrieved 2008-10-05.
Stanford Luce wrote the first English PhD. dissertation on Verne, followed soon by Arthur B. Evans and William Butcher, all three leading names in today's Verne Renaissance.
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Jean-Michel Margot. "Death of Stan Luce". Retrieved 2008-10-05.
Many [years] ago, collecting bibliographic data about Jules Verne, I discovered [that Stanford Luce] was the author of the first PhD dissertation in English about Jules Verne - 1953 - almost 20 years before the first French one (Vierne, 1974).
Note: Jean-Michel Margot is the president of the North American Jules Verne Society and co-writer of the 2007 English translation of The Kip Brothers.
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