{"id":1543,"date":"2016-02-10T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:02:08","slug":"littleton-taylor-dowe-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"LITTLETON, TAYLOR DOWE, 1930-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literary scholar; University professor, administrator. Born March 14, 1930, Birmingham. Parents– M. Taylor and Florence Longcrier Littleton. Married–Mary Lucy Williams, 1954. Children– Four. Education– Florida State University, B.S., 1951, M.A., 1952, Ph.D., 1960. U.S. Army, 1952-54. Florida State University, teaching assistant, 1954-1957; Auburn University, English faculty, 1957-1968,\u00a0 assistant dean of graduate studies, 1964-1968; dean of undergraduate studies, 1968-1972, vice president for academic affairs, 1972-1983; Mosley Professor of Science and Humanities, 1983-95.\u00a0Member Phi Kappa Phi, South Atlantic Modern Language\u00a0Association. \u00a0 The Littleton-Franklin Lecture Series, which has brought prominent people to speak at\u00a0 Auburn since 1968, was named for Dr. Littleton. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaders in Education, 1974; Directory of American Studies, 1982; Marquis Who’s Who online<\/p>\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Color of Silver:\u00a0 William Spratling, his Life and Art.\u00a0 Baton Rouge:\u00a0 LSU Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

“A Present for My Country”:\u00a0 John James Audubon’s American Voice.\u00a0 Auburn:\u00a0 Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, 2008.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advancing American Art; Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

Athletics and Academe; an Anatomy of Abuses and Prescriptions for Reform. New York; American Council on Education,, McMillan, 1991.<\/p>\n

The Idea of Tragedy. Glenview, Ill.; Scott, Foresman, 1966.<\/p>\n

Philip Henry Gosse:\u00a0 Science and Art in Letters from Alabama <\/em>and Entomologia Alabamensis<\/em>.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

The Spanish Armada. New York; American Book Co., 1964.<\/p>\n

Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rights of Memory:\u00a0 Essays on History, Science, and American Culture.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Letters from Alabama, Chiefly Relating to Natural History, by Philip Henry Gosse.\u00a0 Authoritative Edition.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2012.<\/p>\n

To Prove a Villain; the case of King Richard III. New York; Macmillan, 1964.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn holds the recording and transcripts of an oral history interview with Taylor Littleton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Literary scholar; University professor, administrator. Born March 14, 1930, Birmingham. Parents– M. Taylor and Florence Longcrier Littleton. Married–Mary Lucy Williams, 1954. Children– Four. Education– Florida State University, B.S., 1951, M.A., 1952, Ph.D., 1960. U.S. Army, 1952-54. Florida State University, teaching assistant, 1954-1957; Auburn University, English faculty, 1957-1968,\u00a0 assistant dean of graduate studies, 1964-1968; dean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}