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Jon Klancher is a Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of English. His research focuses on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British culture, particularly the history of book reading and the sociology of literature. He is currently engaged in a project that examines the emergence of the modern idea of 'scale' in early-modern sciences and the emerging disciplines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Klancher is the author of the book 'Transfiguring Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age' published by Cambridge University Press, which received the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize in 2016. He has also edited the 'Concise Companion to the Romantic Age' for Blackwell, contributing to a wide range of reference books, and authored 'Making English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832,' which relates essays on Romantic-age print history.
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