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for an Outstanding Book in Literary Scholarship or Criticism 1951-2002 |
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for an Outstanding Book in Literary Scholarship or Criticism 1951-2002 |
The Phi Beta Kappa book awards, are given annually in December to outstanding scholarly books that have been published in the United States in the fields of humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and mathematics. There are three awards, each carrying a prize of $2,500, which goes to the author. The Christian Gauss Award whose winners are shown below, is offered in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 in honor of the late Christian Gauss, the distinguished scholar, teacher and dean, who also served as president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
| 2002 | Susan Stewart | Poetry and the Fate of the Senses |
| 2001 | Michael West | Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters & the Search for the Language of Nature |
| 2000 | Leonard Barkan | Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture |
| 1999 | James Olney | Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing |
| 1998 | Theodore Ziolkowski | The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises |
| 1997 | Anne Ferry | The Title to the Poem |
| 1996 | Paul Alpers | What is Pastoral? |
| 1995 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 |
| 1994 | John T. Irwin | The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story |
| 1993 | Eric J. Sundquist | To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature |
| 1992 | Lee Patterson | Chaucer and the Subject of History |
| 1991 | Richard D. Altick | The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel |
| 1990 | Evelyn Barish | Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy |
| 1989 | Harold Bloom | Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present |
| 1988 | David S. Reynolds | Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville |
| 1987 | Leonard Barkan | The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism |
| 1986 | Maynard Mack | Alexander Pope: A Life |
| 1985 | Peter M. Sacks | The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats |
| 1984 | Irvin Ehrenpreis | Swift: The Man. His Works, and the Age, Volume III, Dean Swift |
| 1983 | W. R. Johnson | The Idea of the Lyric: Lyric Modes in Ancient and Modern Poetry |
| 1982 | Lawrence Lipking | The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers |
| 1981 | Robert Bernard Martin | Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart |
| 1980 | Donald L. Fanger | The Creation of Nikolai Gogol |
| 1979 | Robert B. Heilman | The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society |
| 1978 | Charles R. Anderson | Person, Place, and Thing in Henry James's Novels |
| 1977 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 |
| 1976 | Elizabeth W. Schneider | T. S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet |
| 1975 | Robert Gittings | Young Thomas Hardy |
| 1974 | Clarence Brown | Mandelstam |
| 1973 | Gwyn Jones | Kings, Beasts, and Heroes |
| 1972 | Hugh Kenner | The Pound Era |
| 1971 | Carl Woodring | Politics in English Romantic Poetry |
| 1970 | Walter Jackson Bate | The Burden of the Past and the English Poet |
| 1969 | Louis Crompton | Shaw the Dramatist |
| 1968 | Barbara Herrnstein Smith | Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End |
| 1967 | Larzer Ziff | The American 1890s: Life and Times of a Lost Generation |
| 1966 | Wilfred Stone | The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster |
| 1965 | Geoffrey H. Hartman | Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 |
| 1964 | Walter Jackson Bate | John Keats |
| 1963 | Joan Webber | Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne |
| 1962 | Wayne C. Booth | The Rhetoric of Fiction |
| 1961 | Charles R. Anderson | Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise |
| 1960 | Reuben Arthur Brower | Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion |
| 1959 | Margaret Gilman | The Idea of Poetry in France |
| 1958 | Cedric H. Whitman | Homer and the Heroic Tradition |
| 1957 | Walter E. Houghton | The Victorian Frame of Mind: 1830-1870 |
| 1956 | Walter Jackson Bate | The Achievement of Samuel Johnson |
| 1955 | Louis L. Martz | The Poetry of Meditation |
| 1954 | M. H. Abrams | The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition |
| 1953 | Francis Fergusson | Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio |
| 1952 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley | The Victorian Temper |
| 1951 | Ruth Wallerstein | Studies in Seventeenth-Century Poetic |
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