George L. Barnett *42

George Barnett, professor emeritus of English at Indiana University, died Feb. 10, 2013, at the age of 98.

Barnett graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1936 with a bachelor’s degree, and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 1939 and 1942, respectively. He taught at Randolph-Macon from 1939 to 1941. Then, from 1942 to 1944 he served as a supervisor at the U.S. Naval Training School at Indiana University.

In 1944 he joined the English department at Indiana. He rose to full professor, and became emeritus in 1980. He was an authority on the works of Charles Lamb and wrote Charles Lamb: The Evolution of Elia (1964) and Charles Lamb (1976).

Barnett co-authored The English Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research (1957 and 1966), sponsored by the Modern Language Association. He also published many scholarly articles and was the editor of Eighteenth-Century British Novelists on the Novel (1968) and Nineteenth-Century British Novelists on the Novel (1971). In 1988, he received an honorary doctor of letters de-gree from Randolph-Macon.

Barnett was predeceased by his wife, Johanetta, and a son. He is survived by a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a granddaughter, and a great-grandson.

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