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Julian Moynahan

April 11, 2024

Julian Lane Moynahan (March 21, 1925 – March 21, 2014) was an American academic, librarian, literary critic, poet, and novelist. Much of Moynahan's academic work was focussed on D. H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov. He was active as a book reviewer for leading publications on both sides of the Atlantic and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983.

Julian Moynahan
Julian Moynahan
Born
Julian Lane Moynahan

(1925-03-21)March 21, 1925
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMarch 21, 2014(2014-03-21) (aged 89)
New Jersey, U.S.[1]
EducationHarvard University (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.)
OccupationProfessor
Years active1954–2005

Early life edit

Moynahan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, in 1925;[1] at the time of the 1940 census, Moynahan was living in Walden Street with his mother, Mary, his eighteen-year-old sister, Anne, and sixteen-year-old brother, Joseph.[2]

Moynahan was both an undergraduate and a graduate at Harvard, where he took the degrees of AB (1946), AM (1951) and PhD (1957).[3] While there, he met Elizabeth Reilly, a student at Radcliffe who became an architect, and they had three daughters.[4] Moynahan's early work was as a librarian in the Boston Public Library.[5]

Career edit

In 1954, Moynahan was an instructor in English at Amherst College.[6] In 1959, he was appointed for three years to a Bicentennial Preceptorship at Princeton University.[7] He went on to become a lecturer at Princeton, Harvard, and University College Dublin, and by 1969 was professor of English literature at Rutgers University.[5][1] In 1975 he was reported to be both professor and librarian.[8]

In 1966, Moynahan was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.[9] In 1969, a reviewer of his second novel wrote that despite being "disguised as an English professor at Rutgers", he was really "a nonstop Irish-American storyteller", gadding from one character to another, with a fondness for black comedy.[5]

A literary critic, Moynahan wrote book reviews and literary criticism for The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post Book World, and the American Irish Historical Society's journal, in the United States, and for The Observer, New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement, in London. He also served on the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[10] and was a published poet.[11]

Much of Moynahan's academic work was focussed on D. H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov. His views on Lawrence were mixed, and he found The Plumed Serpent to be "the most padded and redundant" of his works.[12] In 1975, Joseph Frank invited Moynahan to give three lectures at Princeton on Anglo-Irish writers, and from this a third specialism developed. He struck up friendships with Seán Ó Faoláin and Benedict Kiely.[13] Two weeks after Nabokov's funeral at Montreux, an American memorial event was held at the McGraw Hill auditorium in New York, and some 500 people heard Alfred Appel, Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Dmitri Nabokov, Moynahan, and Harold McGraw pay tribute.[14]

Moynahan's most prolific period was the 1960s and 1970s.[4] In 1983, he was given a Guggenheim Fellowship,[15] and after that his only major publication was Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (1995).[16] In this survey of the whole field of Anglo-Irish literature, there are chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, Sheridan Le Fanu, C. R. Maturin, George Moore, Somerville and Ross, W. B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, and historical summaries.[17] Moynahan finds that the women writers, Edgeworth, Somerville and Ross, and Bowen, were a major force in the development of literary imagination. For him, The Real Charlotte is a contender for the title of best Irish novel before Joyce.[18]

By 2005, Moynahan had retired and was a professor emeritus at Rutgers.[19] After he died of pneumonia in March 2014, on his 89th birthday,[1] an obituary by Stuart Mitchner in Town Topics called him witty, dashing, roguish, and breezy, "refreshingly counter to the remote, buttoned-up academic".[4]

Moynahan and his wife were married for 68 years.[4] She survived him until September 2019.[20]

Awards edit

Bibliography edit

Literary criticism edit

  • The Deed of Life: the Novels and Tales of D. H. Lawrence (Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press, 1963, ISBN 9780691060231)
  • Vladimir Nabokov (University of Minnesota Press, 1971, ISBN 9781452911922)
  • Alfred Appel, Julian L. Moynahan, Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Dmitri Nabokov, In Memoriam: Vladimir Nabokov 1899–1977 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977, ISBN 978-0070457089)
  • Sons and Lovers: Text, Background, and Criticism (London: Penguin, 1977, ISBN 9780140155044)
  • The Portable Thomas Hardy (New York: Viking, 1977, ISBN 978-0670703401)
  • Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0691037578)

Novels edit

  • Sisters and Brothers (New York: Random House, 1960, ASIN B001SQBMCU)
  • Pairing Off (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969, ISBN 9780434479900)
  • Garden State (New York: Little, Brown, 1973, ISBN 9780316586979)
  • Where Land and Water Meet (New York: William Morrow, 1979, ISBN 9780688034467)

Selected articles edit

  • 'The Mayor of Casterbridge and the Old Testament's First Book of Samuel: A Study of Some Literary Relationships', in PMLA, 71, 1 (March 1956), 18–30
  • 'Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Deed of Life', in ELH, 26, 1 (March 1959), 66–90
  • 'The Hero's Guilt: The Case of Great Expectations ', in Essays in Criticism, X, 1 (January 1960), 60–79
  • 'Pastoralism as Culture and Counter-Culture in English Fiction, 1800–1928', in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 6 (Fall 1972), 20–35
  • 'Hermeneutic Hesitation: A Dialogue between Geoffrey Hartman & Julian Moynahan', in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 12, 2 (Winter 1979), 101–112
  • 'The Battle of Aughrim: A Commentary', in Irish University Review, 13, 1 (Spring 1983), 103-113

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Julian Lane Moynahan" (obituary), NJ.com, accessed November 19, 2022
  2. ^ "Julian Moynahan in the 1940 Census", ancestry.com/1940, accessed November 22, 2022
  3. ^ Harvard Alumni Directory (1970), p. 1191: "Moynahan, Julian Lane 46, 35 Springfield Rd, London NW8, England Ed AB 46 (47) cl , AM 51 , PhD 57"
  4. ^ a b c d Stuart Mitchner, "Pairings and Passings: It's Never Too Late to Read Julian Moynahan (1925–2014)", Town Topics, April 2, 2014, accessed November 17, 2022
  5. ^ a b c "Books: Lost in the Stacks", Time, August 22, 1969, accessed November 16, 2022
  6. ^ Report of the President, Dean, Librarian, College Physician, and Treasurer (Amherst College, 1954), p. 3: "Julian LANE MOYNAHAN, Instructor in English"
  7. ^ The President's Report (Princeton University, 1959), p. 34
  8. ^ Mt Vernon Register News, January 30, 1975, p. 4
  9. ^ a b National Endowment for the Arts NEA Literature Fellowships, arts.gov, March 2006, accessed November 19, 2022, p. 32
  10. ^ Obituaries 3/26/14: Julian Lane Moynahan, Town Topics, March 26, 2014, accessed November 18, 2022
  11. ^ "White Nights BY JULIAN MOYNAHAN", poetryfoundation.org, July 1959, accessed November 19, 2022
  12. ^ John B. Humma, Metaphor and Meaning in D. H. Lawrence's Later Novels (University of Missouri Press, 1990), p. 30
  13. ^ Julian Moynahan, Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (1995), p. ix
  14. ^ Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 662
  15. ^ a b "Julian Moynahan", John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation at gf.org, accessed November 15, 2022
  16. ^ Julian L. Moynahan, Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
  17. ^ Mary Helen Thuente, 'Julian Moynahan "Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture" (Book Review)', in English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 40, 2, (January 1997), 235-238
  18. ^ Christina Chance, Matthieu Boyd, Aled Llion Jones, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium (Harvard UP, 2010), p. 356, citing Moynahan, Anglo-Irish, p. 183
  19. ^ Harold Bloom, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (Infobase Publishing, 2005), p. 111
  20. ^ "Elizabeth Moynahan" (obituary), New York Times, October 13, 2019, accessed November 15, 2022

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Julian Lane Moynahan March 21 1925 March 21 2014 was an American academic librarian literary critic poet and novelist Much of Moynahan s academic work was focussed on D H Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov He was active as a book reviewer for leading publications on both sides of the Atlantic and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983 Julian MoynahanJulian MoynahanBornJulian Lane Moynahan 1925 03 21 March 21 1925Cambridge Massachusetts U S DiedMarch 21 2014 2014 03 21 aged 89 New Jersey U S 1 EducationHarvard University A B A M Ph D OccupationProfessorYears active1954 2005 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Awards 4 Bibliography 4 1 Literary criticism 4 2 Novels 4 3 Selected articles 5 Notes 6 External linksEarly life editMoynahan was born in Cambridge Massachusetts United States in 1925 1 at the time of the 1940 census Moynahan was living in Walden Street with his mother Mary his eighteen year old sister Anne and sixteen year old brother Joseph 2 Moynahan was both an undergraduate and a graduate at Harvard where he took the degrees of AB 1946 AM 1951 and PhD 1957 3 While there he met Elizabeth Reilly a student at Radcliffe who became an architect and they had three daughters 4 Moynahan s early work was as a librarian in the Boston Public Library 5 Career editIn 1954 Moynahan was an instructor in English at Amherst College 6 In 1959 he was appointed for three years to a Bicentennial Preceptorship at Princeton University 7 He went on to become a lecturer at Princeton Harvard and University College Dublin and by 1969 was professor of English literature at Rutgers University 5 1 In 1975 he was reported to be both professor and librarian 8 In 1966 Moynahan was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 9 In 1969 a reviewer of his second novel wrote that despite being disguised as an English professor at Rutgers he was really a nonstop Irish American storyteller gadding from one character to another with a fondness for black comedy 5 A literary critic Moynahan wrote book reviews and literary criticism for The New York Times Book Review The New York Review of Books The Washington Post Book World and the American Irish Historical Society s journal in the United States and for The Observer New Statesman The Times Literary Supplement in London He also served on the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 10 and was a published poet 11 Much of Moynahan s academic work was focussed on D H Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov His views on Lawrence were mixed and he found The Plumed Serpent to be the most padded and redundant of his works 12 In 1975 Joseph Frank invited Moynahan to give three lectures at Princeton on Anglo Irish writers and from this a third specialism developed He struck up friendships with Sean o Faolain and Benedict Kiely 13 Two weeks after Nabokov s funeral at Montreux an American memorial event was held at the McGraw Hill auditorium in New York and some 500 people heard Alfred Appel Alfred Kazin John Updike Dmitri Nabokov Moynahan and Harold McGraw pay tribute 14 Moynahan s most prolific period was the 1960s and 1970s 4 In 1983 he was given a Guggenheim Fellowship 15 and after that his only major publication was Anglo Irish The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture 1995 16 In this survey of the whole field of Anglo Irish literature there are chapters on Elizabeth Bowen Maria Edgeworth Charles Lever Sheridan Le Fanu C R Maturin George Moore Somerville and Ross W B Yeats and Samuel Beckett and historical summaries 17 Moynahan finds that the women writers Edgeworth Somerville and Ross and Bowen were a major force in the development of literary imagination For him The Real Charlotte is a contender for the title of best Irish novel before Joyce 18 By 2005 Moynahan had retired and was a professor emeritus at Rutgers 19 After he died of pneumonia in March 2014 on his 89th birthday 1 an obituary by Stuart Mitchner in Town Topics called him witty dashing roguish and breezy refreshingly counter to the remote buttoned up academic 4 Moynahan and his wife were married for 68 years 4 She survived him until September 2019 20 Awards editIngram Merrill Foundation Award 1 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 1966 9 Guggenheim Fellowship 1983 15 Bibliography editLiterary criticism edit The Deed of Life the Novels and Tales of D H Lawrence Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press 1963 ISBN 9780691060231 Vladimir Nabokov University of Minnesota Press 1971 ISBN 9781452911922 Alfred Appel Julian L Moynahan Alfred Kazin John Updike Dmitri Nabokov In Memoriam Vladimir Nabokov 1899 1977 New York McGraw Hill 1977 ISBN 978 0070457089 Sons and Lovers Text Background and Criticism London Penguin 1977 ISBN 9780140155044 The Portable Thomas Hardy New York Viking 1977 ISBN 978 0670703401 Anglo Irish The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture Princeton Princeton University Press 1995 ISBN 978 0691037578 Novels edit Sisters and Brothers New York Random House 1960 ASIN B001SQBMCU Pairing Off New York William Morrow and Company 1969 ISBN 9780434479900 Garden State New York Little Brown 1973 ISBN 9780316586979 Where Land and Water Meet New York William Morrow 1979 ISBN 9780688034467 Selected articles edit The Mayor of Casterbridge and the Old Testament s First Book of Samuel A Study of Some Literary Relationships in PMLA 71 1 March 1956 18 30 Lady Chatterley s Lover The Deed of Life in ELH 26 1 March 1959 66 90 The Hero s Guilt The Case of Great Expectations in Essays in Criticism X 1 January 1960 60 79 Pastoralism as Culture and Counter Culture in English Fiction 1800 1928 in Novel A Forum on Fiction 6 Fall 1972 20 35 Hermeneutic Hesitation A Dialogue between Geoffrey Hartman amp Julian Moynahan in Novel A Forum on Fiction 12 2 Winter 1979 101 112 The Battle of Aughrim A Commentary in Irish University Review 13 1 Spring 1983 103 113Notes edit a b c d e Julian Lane Moynahan obituary NJ com accessed November 19 2022 Julian Moynahan in the 1940 Census ancestry com 1940 accessed November 22 2022 Harvard Alumni Directory 1970 p 1191 Moynahan Julian Lane 46 35 Springfield Rd London NW8 England Ed AB 46 47 cl AM 51 PhD 57 a b c d Stuart Mitchner Pairings and Passings It s Never Too Late to Read Julian Moynahan 1925 2014 Town Topics April 2 2014 accessed November 17 2022 a b c Books Lost in the Stacks Time August 22 1969 accessed November 16 2022 Report of the President Dean Librarian College Physician and Treasurer Amherst College 1954 p 3 Julian LANE MOYNAHAN Instructor in English The President s Report Princeton University 1959 p 34 Mt Vernon Register News January 30 1975 p 4 a b National Endowment for the Arts NEA Literature Fellowships arts gov March 2006 accessed November 19 2022 p 32 Obituaries 3 26 14 Julian Lane Moynahan Town Topics March 26 2014 accessed November 18 2022 White Nights BY JULIAN MOYNAHAN poetryfoundation org July 1959 accessed November 19 2022 John B Humma Metaphor and Meaning in D H Lawrence s Later Novels University of Missouri Press 1990 p 30 Julian Moynahan Anglo Irish The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture 1995 p ix Brian Boyd Vladimir Nabokov The American Years Princeton University Press 2016 p 662 a b Julian Moynahan John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation at gf org accessed November 15 2022 Julian L Moynahan Anglo Irish The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture Princeton Princeton University Press 1995 Mary Helen Thuente Julian Moynahan Anglo Irish The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture Book Review in English Literature in Transition 1880 1920 40 2 January 1997 235 238 Christina Chance Matthieu Boyd Aled Llion Jones Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium Harvard UP 2010 p 356 citing Moynahan Anglo Irish p 183 Harold Bloom Charles Dickens s Great Expectations Infobase Publishing 2005 p 111 Elizabeth Moynahan obituary New York Times October 13 2019 accessed November 15 2022External links edit Julian Moynahan Princeton University Press 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