Scribleriana

Scribleriana Howard Weinbrot Roy Wolper (1931–2020) Click for larger view View full resolution The last of the founding editors of The Scriblerian, Roy S. Wolper, died on July 10, after a long battle with cancer. He had continued his lifelong crusade against careless writing and slipshod thinking well into his eighties and he remained available to the current Scriblerian editors for advice and encouragement to the very end. We celebrated Roy’s career in the Spring 2017 issue of the journal, so will not repeat ourselves here. Paul K. Alkon (1935–2020) Paul Alkon died from cerebral bleeding on January 13, 2020. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1962. He went on to a distinguished career at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, and finally as Leo S. Bing Professor at the University of Southern California, 1980–2007. There was special honor in that endowed chair: Paul Alkon was Donald J. Greene’s successor. Paul was indeed a worthy heir of the Bing professorship. He was a founding member of ASECS, and a convener of its national meeting at the University of Maryland in 1971. He was a brilliant, [End Page 110] clear, learned teacher and writer with broad ranging interests, at which he regularly exceled. He published numerous articles, five books, and one co-edited volume; of especial interest to Scriblerian readers are his Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline (1967), Defoe and Fictional Time (1979), and Origins of Futuristic Fiction (1987). He held a Guggenheim in 1983–84. One of his special talents was anticipating work that predicted the direction of subsequent research. Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline, for example, included a major chapter on Johnson’s sermons. Defoe and Fictional Time anticipated studies of time as perceived and used in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Paul Alkon was my friend from 1958 until his death in January 2020. During those many years I saw Paul build ship models, a harpsichord, fill book shelves with eighteenth-century books, books about science fiction, Winston Churchill, Lawrence of Arabia, Inuit art, and almost any other matter on which an ever-hungry mind could feed. I will remember him as a friend, colleague, paradigm of scholarly and pedagogical excellence, husband, and father. One of his daughters wrote an apt sentence for honoring him: “In lieu of flowers, reach out to a friend and discuss a book you love.” Howard Weinbrot University of Wisconsin Philip Harth (1926–2020) Philip Harth died peacefully on April 28, 2020 at the Attic Angel Community in Middleton, Wisconsin. Phil received his MA from the University of Chicago in 1949, and his PhD, with Honors, in 1958. R. S. Crane was one of his mentors. From 1954 to 1956 Harth was a Fulbright Scholar at University College, London, and spent much of his time at the old North Library of the British Museum. That concentrated effort nurtured his doctoral dissertation, earned his position at Northwestern University (1956–1965), and evolved into his first book, the still invaluable Swift and Anglican Rationalism: The Religious Background of “A Tale of a Tub” (Chicago, 1961). The importance of his book was made plain in 1966 when the University of Wisconsin English Department tempted him to Madison to replace the retiring and distinguished Ricardo Quintana. Harth’s appointment assured Wisconsin’s enduring importance as a center for the study and teaching of eighteenth-century British literature and culture. Harth’s subsequent books were Contexts of Dryden’s Thought (Chicago, 1968), and Pen for a Party: Dryden’s Tory Propaganda and its Contexts (Princeton, 1993), and an edition of Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (Penguin, 1989). Harth made plain that religion and politics are necessary to understand ancestral achievement. This uniformly admirable body of research, together with numerous articles and reviews, was supported by major grants: the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, the Clark Library, the Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Reed College Humanities Institute, the University of Virginia as visiting professor, and the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin. In 1977 Philip...

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