Charles Edwyn Vaughan

Charles Edwyn Vaughan (10 February 1854 – 8 October 1922) was a British academic who specialised in English literature and political philosophy.^[1]

Early life and academic career

Vaughan was born in Leicester and educated at Marlborough College.^[1][2] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 31 May 1873,^[3][4] and graduated with a BA in 1878 and an MA in 1883.^[3] Vaughan was one of the many students at Balliol who came under the influence of the idealist philosopher T. H. Green, who was also his cousin.^[2]

Vaughan served as Professor of English Language and Literature at three different institutions: University College, Cardiff between 1889 and 1898,^[2] the Durham College of Science from 1889 to 1904 and at the University of Leeds from 1904 until 1913.^[5][2] He then moved to Manchester and was appointed Governor of John Rylands Library.^[2]

Vaughan's magnum opus was the Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which he composed between the 1890s and 1915, when it was published in two volumes by Cambridge University Press.^[6] Harold Laski considered Vaughan as "much the best of his [Rousseau] editors" and said that he was "an ardent devotee" of Rousseau.^[7]

Works

• 'Victor Hugo', The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 77 (January 1883), pp. 71–97.
• 'Mr. Browning', The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 80 (July 1884), pp. 1–27.
• 'Charles John Vaughan (1816–97)', The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 58 (1899), pp. 159–161.
• Selections from Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, edited with introduction and notes by Charles Edward Vaughan (Rivingtons, 1892).
• Burke's Speeches on America, edited with introduction and notes by Charles Edward Vaughan (Rivingtons, 1893).
• The Duchess of Malfi. A Play written by John Webster, edited with a preface, notes and glossary by Charles Edward Vaughan (Dent, 1896).
• English Literary Criticism, introduction by Charles Edward Vaughan (Blackie & Son, 1896).
• John Milton, Areopagitica and other Tracts, edited by Charles Edward Vaughan (Dent, 1900).
• The Romantic Revolt (Blackwood Sr Sons, 1907).
• Types of Tragic Drama (Macmillan, 1908).
• 'The Romantic Movement in European Literature', The Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VI (Cambridge University Press, 1909), pp. 822–837.
• 'Tourneur and Webster', The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. VI (Cambridge University Press, 1910), pp. 166–187.
• 'Carlyle and His German Masters', Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, Vol. I (Oxford University Press, 1910), pp. 168–196.
• 'Echoes of Old English Rhythm in Modern English Poetry', Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, Vol. II, Pt. 12 (Braford: Byles and Sons, 1911), pp. 20–38.
• Rousseau and His Enemies. Being the substance of a Lecture delivered before the Philosophical and Literary Society of Leeds on 7 February 1911 (R. Jackson, Leeds, n.d. [1911]).
• 'Sterne and the Novel of his Times', The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. X (Cambridge University Press, 1913), pp. 46–66.
• 'Coleridge', The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. XI (Cambridge University Press, 1914), pp. 117–139.
• The Influence of English Poetry upon the Romantic Revival on the Continent, British Academy Warton Lecture IV (Oxford University Press, 1914).
• Bibliographies of Swinburne, Morris and Rossetti, English Association Pamphlet, No. 29 (December 1914).
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Political Writings, edited from the original manuscripts and authentic editions with introductions and notes by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (Cambridge University Press, 1915). 2 Vols.
• 'Charlotte and Emily Brontë: a comparison and a contrast', Charlotte Bronte, 1816–1916: A Centenary Memorial prepared by the Bronte Society, ed. Butler Wood (Fisher Unwin, 1917), pp. 173–206.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe, and the State of War, translated by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (Constable, 1917).
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social, ou Principes du Droit Politique, edited by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (Manchester University Press, 1918).
• Giambattista Vico: an Eighteenth Century Pioneer (Manchester University Press, for the John Rylands Library, 1921).