Alan Raitt
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Alan William Raitt, FRSL, FBA (21 September 1930 – 2 September 2006) was a British scholar of French literature, specialising in nineteenth-century French literature.[1] From 1992 to 1997, he was Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford.
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Alan Raitt | |
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Born | Alan William Raitt (1930-09-21)21 September 1930 |
Died | 2 September 2006(2006-09-02) (aged 75) |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1971) Fellow of the British Academy (1992) Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1995) |
Academic background | |
Education | The King Edward VI School, Morpeth |
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Thesis | (1957) |
Doctoral advisor | Austin Gill |
Academic work | |
Discipline | French literature |
Sub-discipline | 19th-century French literature |
Institutions | Magdalen College, Oxford Exeter College, Oxford University of Oxford |
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