Steven Marcus | |
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Born | New York City | December 13, 1928
Died | April 25, 2018[1] | (aged 89)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Literary Critic, Professor |
Notable work | The Other Victorians (1966) |
Main interests | Literary criticism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, pornography |
Notable ideas | Pornotopia |
Steven Paul Marcus (December 13, 1928 – April 25, 2018) was an American academic and literary critic who published influential psychoanalytic analyses of the novels of Charles Dickens and Victorian pornography. He was George Delacorte Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University.