Lilian R. Furst

Lilian R. Furst
Born
Lilian Renée Furst

(1931-06-30)30 June 1931
Vienna, Austria
Died11 September 2009(2009-09-11) (aged 78)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
OccupationLiterary scholar
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1982)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineComparative literature
Institutions

Lilian Renée Furst (30 June 1931 – 11 September 2009) was a British-American literary scholar. A refugee from Nazi Germany's Anschluss, she studied in Europe and later headed Queen's University Belfast's comparative literary studies department, before becoming the Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A 1982 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote or edited more than a dozen books, as well as a memoir about her youth.

Biography

Lilian Renée Furst, a Jew,[1] was born on 30 June 1931 in Vienna.[2][3] Her parents Desider Fürst and Sári Fürst-Neufeld were dental surgeons, and were Hungarian and Polish respectively.[4][3] After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, the family fled to Manchester in the United Kingdom.[4][3] Many of their relatives were murdered in the Holocaust, including two paternal aunts (one in the Auschwitz concentration camp) and several cousins.[5]

In addition to brief studies at the University of Paris and University of Zurich, Furst obtained a BA with honours (1952) in French and German at the Victoria University of Manchester, as well as a PhD in German (1957) at the University of Cambridge.[2][3] She joined Queen's University Belfast in 1955, later moving from lecturer to associate professor of German.[2] In 1966, she returned to VUM as an associate professor of comparative literature,[2] also spending about four years as their head of comparative literary studies.[3]

Realizing that the United States had a higher regard for the field, Furst moved out of Britain into the new country.[3] She worked at the University of Oregon (1972-1975) as a professor of Romance languages, as well as director of the comparative literature graduate program.[2] After a brief stint at the University of Texas at Dallas as a professor of comparative literature (1975),[2] she finally started teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986, doing so until 2005.[3] She was the Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the College of William & Mary,[6] as well as Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at UNC.[3]

Furst wrote or edited more than a dozen books, with many of them translated into several languages as Greek, Japanese, Korean, and Malay.[3] She chaired the Modern Language Association's 19th-century comparative literature section in 1979.[6] In 1982,[7] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of irony in the 18th and 19th century European narrative".[2] She also served as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at UNC starting in 1984.[3] In 2006, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln awarded her an honorary doctorate of letters.[3] She was a 1974-1975 American Council of Learned Societies fellow and a 1982-1983 Martha Sutton Weeks Fellow,[2] and she had residencies at the National Humanities Center and the Stanford Humanities Center.[3]

In addition to her literature scholarship, Furst wrote Home Is Somewhere Else (1994), her memoir about her experiences of fleeing the Nazi regime.[3] She once said: "I am aware each time I teach my course on the literary portrayal of adolescence in twentieth century literature, just how close I came to the fate of Anne Frank."[8] She also wrote another manuscript which had not been published prior to her death;[3] it is held within her papers at the Girton College Archives, and a portion was published in the journal Religions.[9]

Furst died from heart disease on 11 September 2009, in her Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home, aged 78.[3] During her retirement, she had suffered from macular degeneration and retinal detachment, which had caused her to be unable to read, but received home care (including from close friends) during her last moments of her life.[3]

Works

  • Romanticism (1969)[a]
  • Romanticism in Perspective (1970)[b]
  • Counterparts: The Dynamics of Franco-German Literary Relationships, 1770-1895 (1977)[c]
  • The Contours of European Romanticism (1979)[d]
  • European Romanticism: Self-Definition (1980, ed.)[e]
  • Fictions of Romantic Irony (1984)[f]
  • L'Assommoir: A Working Woman's Life (1990)[g]
  • Disorderly Eaters: Text in Self-Empowerment (1992; ed. with Peter W. Graham)[34]
  • Realism (1992, ed.)[h]
  • Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative (1992)[i]
  • Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill (1997; ed.)[j]
  • All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction (1995)[k]
  • Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power (1998)[l]
  • Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature (2000, ed.)[m]
  • Before Freud: Hysteria and Hypothesis in Later Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Cases (2005)[n]

Notes

  1. ^ Reviews of this book: [10][11][12]
  2. ^ Reviews of this book: [13][14][15][16]
  3. ^ Reviews of this book: [17][18][19][20]
  4. ^ Reviews of this book: [21][22][23][24][25]
  5. ^ Reviews of this book: [26][21][27]
  6. ^ Reviews of this book: [28][29][30][31]
  7. ^ Reviews of this book: [32][33]
  8. ^ Reviews of this book: [35][36]
  9. ^ Reviews of this book: [37][38]
  10. ^ Reviews of this book: [39][40][41]
  11. ^ Reviews of this book: [42][43][44][45]
  12. ^ Reviews of this book: [46][47]
  13. ^ Reviews of this book: [48][49][50]
  14. ^ Reviews of this book: [51][52]

References

  1. ^ Hacohen, Malachi (2 August 2017). "Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture: Studies in Memory of Lilian Furst (1931–2009)". Religions. 8 (8): 139. doi:10.3390/rel8080139. ISSN 2077-1444.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1982. p. 37.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Kennedy, Edward Donald (2010). "In Memoriam: Lilian Renée Furst 1931–2009". The Comparatist. 34: 214–216. ISSN 0195-7678. JSTOR 26237252.
  4. ^ a b Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (2002). Comparative Central European Culture. Purdue University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-55753-240-4.
  5. ^ Knox, Katharine; Kushner, Tony (2012). Refugees in an Age of Genocide: Global, National and Local Perspectives During the Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-136-31326-4.
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  8. ^ "Lilian Furst Obituary (2009) - Chapel Hill, NC - The News & Observer". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2026. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  9. ^ Furst, Lilian; Aliaga-Buchenau, Anabel (29 October 2012). "Growing up in Wartime England—A Selection from "The Rachel Chronicles: A Kind of Memoir"". Religions. 3 (4): 993–1024. doi:10.3390/rel3040993. ISSN 2077-1444.
  10. ^ Gallagher, Michael P. (1970). "Review of Profiles in Literature: Jonathan Swift; James Joyce; Samuel Richardson; Thomas Love Peacock; Henry Fielding; Six American Novelists of the Nineteenth Century; The Critical Idiom: Tragedy; Romanticism; Aestheticism; The Conceit; The Absurd; Fancy and Imagination". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 59 (234): 218–219. ISSN 0039-3495. JSTOR 30088902.
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  12. ^ Stokstad, M. (1970). "Review of The American Art Journal I; Art Treasures in the British Isles; The Aesthetic Movement, Prelude to Art Nouveau; Iranian Art; Directory of American Philosophers; The Far Point; Gustave Courbet; Philosophy and Science as Modes of Knowing; Art, Music and Ideas; Caravaggio Studies; Romanticism; New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970; The Cult of the Ego; The Structure of Awareness; Constable: The Natural Painter; Irish Art in the Romanesque Period; A History of Art and Music; Art of the Americas, Ancient and Hispanic; Art in the Early Church; Great Prints of the World; El Surrealismo y el arte fantástico de México; The Waning Middle Ages; The World of Van Gogh 1853-1890; A Handbook of Romanesque Art". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 29 (1): 143–145. doi:10.2307/428831. ISSN 0021-8529. JSTOR 428831.
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  14. ^ Garber, Frederick (1972). "Review of The Romantic Movement; Romanticism in Perspective". Comparative Literature. 24 (2): 186–189. doi:10.2307/1769972. ISSN 0010-4124. JSTOR 1769972.
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  22. ^ Hauptman, Robert (1981). "Review of The Absolute Comic; The Contours of European Romanticism; The Context of English Literature: 1900-1930". Modern Fiction Studies. 27 (4): 762–765. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26281152.
  23. ^ Hoffmeister, Gerhart (1981). "Review of The Contours of European Romanticism". Monatshefte. 73 (4): 459–460. ISSN 0026-9271. JSTOR 30157234.
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  25. ^ Littlejohns, Richard (1982). "Review of The Contours of European Romanticism". The Modern Language Review. 77 (1): 156–157. doi:10.2307/3727514. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3727514.
  26. ^ Denommé, Robert T. (1982). "Review of European Romanticism: Self-Definition. An Anthology". The French Review. 55 (3): 411. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 392170.
  27. ^ Kern, Edith (1981). "Review of Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical; European Romanticism: Self-Definition". The Modern Language Review. 76 (4): 918–920. doi:10.2307/3727204. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3727204.
  28. ^ Haase, Donald P. (1986). "Review of Fictions of Romantic Irony". The German Quarterly. 59 (1): 138–139. doi:10.2307/406231. ISSN 0016-8831. JSTOR 406231.
  29. ^ Kipperman, Mark (1986). "Review of Fictions of Romantic Irony". Keats-Shelley Journal. 35: 220–223. ISSN 0453-4387. JSTOR 30212979.
  30. ^ Simpson, David (1987). "Review of Fictions of Romantic Irony". Studies in Romanticism. 26 (1): 169–172. doi:10.2307/25600640. ISSN 0039-3762. JSTOR 25600640.
  31. ^ Sperry, Stuart M. (1986). "Review of Fictions of Romantic Irony". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 85 (1): 134–135. ISSN 0363-6941. JSTOR 27709631.
  32. ^ Brady, Patrick (1991). "Review of L'Assommoir. A Working Woman's Life. Twayne's Masterwork Studies". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 19 (3): 457–458. ISSN 0146-7891. JSTOR 23532300.
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