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Alan Jacobs


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Writer

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The Narnian: The Life a, The Pleasures of Readin, Original Sin: A Cultural, Shaming The Devil, A Theology Of Reading

Alan Jacobs (born 1958) is a scholar of English literature, writer, and literary critic. He is a distinguished professor of the humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University.

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Career

Jacobs earned a B.A. from the University of Alabama in 1980 and a PhD from the University of Virginia in 1987. He was the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois) until 2012 when his hiring to Baylor was widely noted as part of the competition between these two Christian colleges.

In addition to his academic work and books, Jacobs has been or is a regular contributor to: The Atlantic, First Things, The New Atlantis, and The American Conservative.

Books

  • "The Book of Common Prayer": A Biography (Princeton, 2013)
  • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford, 2011)
  • A new critical edition of W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (Princeton, 2011)
  • Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant (Eerdmans, 2010)
  • Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne, 2008)
  • Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life (Eerdmans, 2008)
  • The Narnian: The Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Harper, 2005)
  • Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truth-Telling (Eerdmans, 2004)
  • Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology (Brazos Press, 2003)
  • A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love (Westview Press, 2001)
  • A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age (Brazos Press, 2001)
  • What Become of Wystan? Change and Continuity in Auden's Poetry (University of Arkansas, 1998)

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