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Quentin Anderson (July 21, 1912 – February 18, 2003) was an American literary critic and cultural historian at Columbia University. His research focused on 19th-century American authors, especially Henry James , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and Walt Whitman , and their attempts to define American identity as both connected to and ...
24. Feb. 2003 · Quentin Anderson, 90, Scholar Known for Literary Criticism - The New York Times. By Wolfgang Saxon. Feb. 24, 2003. Quentin Anderson, a literary critic, cultural historian and Columbia...
Anderson faulted the dark symbolic approach to American literature for being too much in the thrall of the New Criticism. The symbolic critics' elevation of literary form and worship of the artistic imagination, Anderson felt, distracted them from grasping the cultural message that they set out to uncover. More important, these critics failed ...
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- The Imperial Self
by Quentin Anderson. Knopf. 274 pp. $7.95. Quentin Anderson’s “essay in American literary and cultural history,” a superb and outrageous book, sees our current counter-cultural rabblement as having started from Emerson. Emerson, as Anderson knows, directed his ethics of release to the sons and daughters of Boston Unitarianism, a rather ...
A collection of personal and professional materials of Quentin Anderson, a Columbia University professor and literary critic. The papers include correspondence, writings, research notes, and documents related to his career, teaching, and personal history.
16. Mai 2019 · Anderson, Quentin, 1912-Publication date 1971 Topics American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Publisher New York : Knopf Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet ...
О QUENTIN ANDERSON, professor emeritus of English at Columbia University, is. the author of The Imperial Self and The American Henry James. This essay is drawn from. his forthcoming book, Making Americans: An Essay on Individualism and Money to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
