Professor Peter Brooks wins Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are given each year in December for outstanding scholarly works published in the United States. The winning books, drawn from the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, must be of broad interest and accessible to the general reader.
The citation for Professor Brooks reads as follows:
Peter Brooks will receive the Christian Gauss Award for /Henry James Goes to Paris <http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8367.html>/ (Princeton University Press, 2007). This award, given for books in the field of literary scholarship and criticism, was created in 1950 to honor a former Phi Beta Kappa president and distinguished scholar at Princeton University. Peter Brooks Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University and from 2008-2014 Mellon Visiting Professor in the department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
