Quentin Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 21, 1912 |
| Died | February 18, 2003 (aged 90) |
| Children | 3, including Maxwell |
| Parent | Maxwell Anderson |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Columbia University (BA, PhD) Harvard University (MA) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literary criticism Cultural history |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Quentin Anderson (July 21, 1912 – February 18, 2003) was an American literary critic and cultural historian at Columbia University.[1] 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.[2]