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Percy G. Adams
Names: Percy Guy Adams
Born: December 16, 1914
Ethnicity:
Hometown: Beeville, TX
Residence: Knoxville, TN
Education: AB Texas College of Arts and Industries, 1933; MA
Texas, 1937; PhD Paris, 1953
Career: Teacher Kingsville, TX, 1934-1940; Instructor Ohio State,
1946-1948; Professor Tennessee, 1948-1966; Fulbright Lecturer Aix-Marseille
and Grenoble, 1958-1959; Visiting Professor Southern California, 1964;
Professor LSU, 1966-1970; Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Tennessee, 1970-1980; Lindsay Young Professor of English Tennessee,
1980- ; Technical Advisor to Universal Studios
Awards: Senior Fellow National Endowment for the Humanities,
1976-1977; Chancellor's Scholar of the Year, 1977-1978
Genres: Other Nonfiction
Biography:
Percy G. Adams has been translator, editor, and collaborator for books
including, Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania
and New York (1961), Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, The Buccaneers
of America (1967), Woodes Rogers A Cruising Voyage around the
World (1970), The Oldest Revolutionary: Essays on Benjamin Franklin
(1976), and Graces of Harmony: Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance
in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry (1977).
Focusing primarily on Franco-British and Franco-American works, Adams
has conducted extensive study in comparative literature . Adams specializes
in the Restoration Period, eighteenth century, and travel literature.
Percy G. Adams is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
-- Tiffani R. Conner
Primary Bibliography:
- Travelers and Travel Liars, 1660-1800.Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1962
- Graces of Harmony: Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance in
Eighteeth-Century British Poetry. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1977
- The Plays of James Thomson. New York: Garland Pub., 1979,
1768
- Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel. Lexington,
KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1983
- The First English Novelists: Essays in Understanding: Honoring
the Retirement of Percy G. Adams. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1985
- Travel Literature Through the Ages: An Anthology. New York:
Garland, 1988
Secondary Bibliography:
- Contemporary Authors. Volumes 1-4, 1st revision. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1967
- Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Volume 4. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1981
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