Books By Raymond A. (University of Connecticut) Anselment - Author

Raymond A. Anselment was born December 4,1939, and educated in both Minnesota and New York. After teaching for a year as a lecturer at the University of Rochester, he accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at the University of Connecticut, where he is currently a Professor of English specializing in seventeenth-century English literature. The author of three dozen articles, an edited collection of essays on two plays of George Farquhar, and a facsimile edition of Thomas Taylor's work on typology, Anselment has also published three book-length scholarly studies that range across various seventeenth-century periods and issues. The first, entitled Betwixt Jest and Earnest, explores the practices and limitations of religious ridicule in a number of prose controversialists, including Milton, Marvell, and Swift. The second book, Loyalist Resolve, focuses on the poetic responses to the political conflicts of the Caroline and Interregnum decades. The Realms of Apollo, chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Acad