Roy Harvey Pearce

Roy Harvey Pearce (born December 2, 1919 in Chicago , † August 27, 2012 ) was an American literary scholar.

biography

Pearce studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (BA 1940, MA, 1942) and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1945). 1945-46 he taught first at Ohio State University , 1946-49 then as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1949 he returned to Ohio State University, where he became a full professor in 1954. 1961–62 he taught as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Bordeaux .

In 1963 he followed a call to the University of California, San Diego , where he built up the newly established Department of Literature, which he was associated with as Distinguished Professor Emeritus until his death . In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1968 he donated his collection of first editions of recent American poetry to the University Library of the UCSD and thus founded the Archive for New Poetry , today one of the largest archives of its kind with over 35,000 volumes. In 1995 it established the Roy Harvey Pearce Prize , an annually awarded prize for contemporary poetry.

Works

• (Ed. With William Matthews): An Annotated Bibliography of American Diaries Written Prior to the Year 1861 . University of California Press, Berkeley 1945.
• Colonial American Writing . Rinehart, New York 1951. 2nd, revised edition: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1969. ISBN 0-03-073015-5
• The Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of ​​Civilization . Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1953.
  • 2nd revised edition published as Savagism and Civilization 1965. 3rd revised edition: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988. ISBN 0-520-06227-2 ; Reprint: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2001. ISBN 0-8018-6996-X
• with Edwin Harrison Cady and Frederick J Hoffman: The Growth of American Literature . American Book Co., New York 1956.
• The Continuity of American Poetry . Princeton University Press, 1961. 2nd expanded edition: Wesleyan University Press (Scranton, PA), 1987.
• (Ed.): Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1961.
• (Ed. With Matthew J. Bruccoli): Henry James: The American . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1962.
• (Ed.): Whitman: A Collection of Critical Essays . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ 1962.
• (Ed. With William Charvat and Claude Simpson): Nathaniel Hawthorne: Centenary Edition of the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne . Ohio State University Press, 1962-.
• (Ed.): Hawthorne Centenary Essays . Ohio State University Press, 1964. ( Digitized version available on publisher's website for full access)
• (Ed. With JH Miller): The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and J. Hillis Miller . Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965.
• (Ed.): Experience in the Novel . Columbia University Press, New York 1968.
• Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1969.
• (Ed.): Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches . Library of America , New York 1982. ISBN 978-0-940450-03-5
• (Ed. With Gabriel A. Almond et al.): Progress and Its Discontents . University of California Press, Berkeley 1982. ISBN 0-520-04478-9
• Gesta Humanorum: Studies in the Historicist Mode . University of Missouri Press, Columbia MO 1987. ISBN 0-8262-0637-9

Web links

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