Rosalie Littell Colie

Rosalie Littell Colie (1924-1972) was Professor of comparative literature and a specialist of Renaissance English literature. She was also a serious poet.[1]

Biography

She received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1944, a M.A. from Columbia University in 1946, and a Ph.D. in English and History from Columbia in 1950.[2] In 1948-49, she was an instructor at Douglass College, and was appointed as Assistant and Associate Professor at Barnard College and Columbia, 1949-1961.[3] She taught and researched at Wesleyan College 1961-1963, at the University of Iowa from 1963 to 1966, was visiting professor at Yale in 1966-67, and was visiting research professor at Oxford University, 1967-68,[4] Lady Margaret Hall College.[5] In January 1972 she received the first appointment of a woman to the chairmanship of an academic department at Brown University, in the Department of Comparative Literature.[6] She was the first to hold the Nancy Duke Lewis Professorship, the first professorship at Brown endowed for women, which had been established in 1967.[7] She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in Renaissance Studies twice, in 1958 and 1966.[8]

Hannah Arendt was a visiting fellow at Wesleyan College from 1961 when Colie was teaching at Wesleyan.[9] Their correspondence began in 1962, and Colie became a long-term correspondent of Arendt. In 1963, Colie had intended to fly to Europe to meet Arendt for a holiday, but these plans were thwarted by Colie's appointment to a position at the University of Iowa. On 19 March 1963, she wrote to Arendt: "I am going to go to Iowa: it is a good job. Full professorship, in both English literature and history, which is ideal. […] I feel a thousand years younger all of sudden, as if the albatross had gone off my neck and I could start to be a human being again instead of such a fake. […] The Iowa thing may ruin our summer plans. [S]han’t get paid until September and have no dough."[9] On Arendt's return from Europe, they spent a week together before Colie moved to Iowa, and they met again in Chicago in May, 1964.[9]

Arendt wrote her a supportive reference in 1967 for her visiting position at Oxford University as Talbot Research Fellow, in which she described Colie as “one of the most erudite women I have ever known.”[9] Arendt also wrote a letter of recommendation for her later position at Brown.[9] She wrote that, besides Colie’s “profound erudition, she was an excellent teacher […] rather strict in her demands and still very much beloved by her students. […] She is very civilized, sophisticated, extremely well-read in all branches of literature, witty, full of spirit. I am sure you will be glad to have her as a colleague.”[9] Letters between Colie and Arendt are held in the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington DC.[10] This has been researched and written about by the feminist scholar, Kathleen B. Jones.

Colie published works on Renaissance paradox, genre theory and Shakespeare. She drowned on 7 July 1972 when her canoe overturned on the Lieutenant River near her home in Old Lyme, Connecticut.[11]

Works
  • Some Thankfulnesse to Constantine.' A study of English influence upon the early works of Constantijn Huygens (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956).[12]
  • Light and Enlightenment. A study of the Cambridge Platonists and the Dutch Arminians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957).[13]
  • Paradoxia epidemica. The Renaissance tradition of paradox (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966).[14]
  • “My ecchoing song.” Andrew Marvell's poetry of criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).[15]
  • The resources of kind : genre-theory in the Renaissance (Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 1973).[16]
  • Some facets of King Lear : essays in prismatic criticism (London: Heinemann, 1974).[17]
  • Shakespeare's Living Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).[18]
  • Atlantic wall, and other poems (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).[19]
  • 'Literature and History' in James Thorpe, ed., Relations of Literary Study. Essays on Interdisciplinary Contributions (New York: MLA, 1967), pp. 1-27.[20]
  • 'The Essayist in His Essay', John Locke: Problems and Perspectives. A Collection of Essays, ed. John W. Yolton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.234-261.[21]

References
  1. Colie, Rosalie Littell (2016-04-19). Atlantic Wall and Other Poems. ISBN 978-0-691-64524-7.
  2. "Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Colie, Rosalie L." www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  3. Scanlon, Jennifer; Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9780313296642.
  4. "Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Colie, Rosalie L." www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  5. "Recent Deaths". The American Historical Review. 78 (3): 757–766. 1973. doi:10.1086/559206. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1847783.
  6. "Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Colie, Rosalie L." www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  7. "Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Colie, Rosalie L." www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  8. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rosalie L. Colie". Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  9. Jones, Kathleen B. "Hannah Arendt's Female Friends". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  10. Arendt, Hannah (1898/1977). "Hannah Arendt papers, 1898-1977". hdl.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-13. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. "Recent Deaths". The American Historical Review. 78 (3): 757–766. 1973. doi:10.1086/559206. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1847783.
  12. Colie, Rosalie L. (1956). 'Some Thankfulnesse to Constantine': A Study of English Influence upon the Early Works of Constantijn Huygens. Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-015-0322-8.
  13. Colie (1957-01-02). Light and Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04688-6.
  14. Paradoxia Epidemica. 2016-04-19. ISBN 978-0-691-65048-7.
  15. Colie, Rosalie Littell (2016-04-19). My Echoing Song. ISBN 978-0-691-64783-8.
  16. Colie, Rosalie; Colie, Rosalie Littell (1973-01-01). The Resources of Kind: Genre-theory in the Renaissance. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-02397-0.
  17. Colie, Rosalie L.; Flahiff, F. T. (1974). Some Facets of King Lear: Essays in Prismatic Criticism. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-8020-1998-1.
  18. Colie, Rosalie (1974). Shakespeare's Living Art. New Jersey: Princeton UP. p. 382. ISBN 9780691645612.
  19. Colie, Rosalie Littell (2016-04-19). Atlantic Wall and Other Poems. ISBN 978-0-691-64524-7.
  20. "Relations of literary study; essays on interdisciplinary contributions : Thorpe, James Ernest, 1915- ed : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  21. Colie, Rosalie (1969). John Locke: Problems and Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 234–261. ISBN 9780521073493.
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