Quentin Anderson

Critic, Author

1912 – 2003

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Who was Quentin Anderson?

Quentin Anderson 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 differentiated from European precedents.

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Born
Jul 21, 1912
Minnewaukan
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Children
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • Harvard University
  • Columbia College of Columbia University in the City of New York
Employment
  • Columbia University
Lived in
  • North Dakota
Died
Feb 18, 2003

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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