Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. The crowning work of Wellek's career was an eight-volume magnum opus entitled A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950, the last two volumes of which he dictated from his bed in a nursing home at age 92. Bibliography Immanuel Kant in England 1793–1838, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1931. [Dissertation] The Rise of English Literary History, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941. Literature and Ideas, Charlottesville: The University of Virginia, 1948. Theory of Literature (with Austin Warren), New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1949. A History of Modern Criticism 1750–1950, New Haven: Yale UP, 1955–1992. (8 Volumes) Dostoevsky: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962. (Introduction pp. 1–15; Anthology) Concepts of Criticism, Ed. Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963. (Collection of Wellek's essays) Essays on Czech Literature, The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1963. Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary Relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the Nineteenth Century, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965. The Literary Theory and Aesthetics of the Prague School, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1969. Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism, New Haven: Yale UP, 1971. Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, (with Alvaro Ribeiro) Oxford: Oxford UP, 1979. (Anthology) Four Critics: Croce, Valéry, Lukács, and Ingarden, Seattle: Washington UP, 1981. Chekhov: New Perspectives (Twentieth Century Views), (with Nonna D. Wellek) Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1981. (Anthology) The Attack on Literature and Other Essays, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. (Collection of Wellek's essays) Journal articles "Prospect and Retrospect", Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA), Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1978. Notes References External links Guide to the René Wellek Papers. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. http://easyliteraturenotes.blogspot.in/2012/08/the-name-and-nature-of-comparative.html On Nature of Literature from the Theory of Literature 1903 births 1995 deaths Academics of University College London American people of Czech descent Austrian literary critics Austrian people of Czech descent Czech expatriates in Austria Czech literary critics New Criticism Writers from Prague People of the Prague linguistic circle Charles University alumni Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Writers from Vienna Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Yale University faculty Yale Sterling Professors Czechoslovak expatriates in the United Kingdom Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States Members of the American Philosophical Society