Stanford Luce Explained
| Stanford Leonard Luce Jr |
| Birth Date: | 19 May 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Occupation: | Professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, OH |
| Nationality: | American |
Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19, 1923 – March 26, 2007) was an American academician known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline and for his English translations of Jules Verne books, especially The Kip Brothers and The Mighty Orinoco, which he was the first to translate into English.
Biography
Luce was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Agnes Foote Luce and Stanford L. Luce Sr. He received a Ph.D. in French studies from Yale University. He died at the age of 83 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Works
- Jules Verne, moralist, writer, scientist (1953), first English Ph.D. dissertation on Jules Verne, Yale University[1] [2]
- A Glossary of Céline's Fiction, with English Translations (1979), Quality Books,
- A Half-century of Céline: An Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982 with William K. Buckley (1983), Garland Pub.,
- Céline and His Critics: Scandals and Paradox (1986), Anma Libri,
- Celine's Pamphlets: An Overview (199*), self-published,
Translations
- Jules Verne, The Mighty Orinoco (French: Le Superbe Orénoque), with Arthur B. Evans, Walter James Miller (2002), Wesleyan University Press,
- Jules Verne, The Begum's Millions (French: Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum), with Arthur B. Evans and Peter Schulman (2005), Wesleyan University Press,
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Conversations with Professor Y (French: Entretiens avec le professeur Y) (2006), Dalkey Archive Press,
- Jules Verne, The Kip Brothers (French: Les Frères Kip), with Arthur B. Evans and Jean-Michel Margot (2007), Wesleyan University Press,
Notes and References
- Web site: As Verne Smiles . Walter James Miller . Stanford Luce wrote the first English PhD. dissertation on Verne, followed soon by Arthur B. Evans and William Butcher, all three leading names in today’s Verne Renaissance. . 2008-10-05 .
- Web site: Death of Stan Luce . Jean-Michel Margot . Many [years] ago, collecting bibliographic data about Jules Verne, I discovered [that Stanford Luce] was the author of the first PhD dissertation in English about Jules Verne - 1953 - almost 20 years before the first French one (Vierne, 1974). . 2008-10-05 . Note: Jean-Michel Margot is the president of the North American Jules Verne Society and co-writer of the 2007 English translation of The Kip Brothers.
