James Chandler (born January 17, 1948"James Chandler". Contemporary Authors Online. December 12, 2006. Retrieved on December 20, 2010.) is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He was previously the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language & Literature at the same institution.
Chandler is the author of three books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1984), England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, which won the 2000 Gordon J. Laing Award for distinction in academic publishing, and An Archeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (2013), which examines continuities between the Romantic culture of sentiment and twentieth-century film.
In 2024, Chandler was made an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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