Roy Harvey Pearce
Biographic Data
| ID | 232325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Harvey Pearce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy Harvey |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearce |
| SIGNATURE | PEARCE R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historicism Once More
Savagism and Civilization
First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble s…
Criticism and the Canon
What has Happened to the Idea of Progress
The Republic of Letters
Whitman Justified
The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren
F. O. Matthiessen as Culture Hero F. O. Matthiessen
A Sense of the Past/A Sense of the Present
Paterson and/as the Deconstructive Mode
A Short History of American Poetry
Ezra Pound
An anecdotal account of Pound's life precedes detailed analyses of The Cantos his early lyrics, and his critical writings
The Drama of Language
A Companion to William Carlos Williams' Paterson
Wallace Stevens
Marianne Moore
The Savages of America
Hawthorne Centenary Essays
Hawthorne Centenary Essays
Hawthorne Centenary Essays
Wallace Stevens
The Continuity of American Poetry
Form and Fable in American Fiction
The Continuity of American Poetry
Art in Culture
"The "Ruines of Mankind
The Significances of the Captivity Narrative
The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating
My title, I must say at the outset, is not of my own invention. It is one of Herman Melville's-the title of a climactic chapter in his The Confidence-Man (1857), the bitter novel with which he seems to have hoped to undermine what he had come to judge were the crumbling foundations of 19th-century American culture. The ConfidenceMan is, in effect, the fantastic story of a 19th-century shape-shifter, who, on a voyage on a riverboat ironically call…
The Idea of the Savage in North American Ethnohistory
A Note on Method in the History of Ideas
Studies in the history of ideas, it seems to me, have largely tended towards the analytic. That is to say, historians of ideas have been primarily concerned with extricating ideas from contexts in which they have been present as consciously formed concepts or as implicit assumptions, and with describing the origin, growth, mutation, collocation, and interaction of those ideas. Contexts have been considered important primarily as they have modifie…
The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined
Research Article| October 01 1947 The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined Roy Harvey Pearce Roy Harvey Pearce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1947) 46 (4): 524–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-46-4-524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Roy Harvey Pearce; The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1…
The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Primitivists
Man and Society
The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined
Research Article| October 01 1947 The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined Roy Harvey Pearce Roy Harvey Pearce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1947) 46 (4): 524–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-46-4-524 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Roy Harvey Pearce; The Leatherstocking Tales Re-Examined. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1…
The Significances of the Captivity Narrative
A Note on Method in the History of Ideas
Studies in the history of ideas, it seems to me, have largely tended towards the analytic. That is to say, historians of ideas have been primarily concerned with extricating ideas from contexts in which they have been present as consciously formed concepts or as implicit assumptions, and with describing the origin, growth, mutation, collocation, and interaction of those ideas. Contexts have been considered important primarily as they have modifie…
Edward Taylor
The Voice of the Old Frontier
"The "Ruines of Mankind
The Savages of America. A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization
The Savages of America
Hawthorne and the Sense of the Past or, the Immortality of Major Molineux
The Savages of America
The Idea of the Savage in North American Ethnohistory
The Savages of America
The American Adam and the State of American Studies
The American Adam and the State of American Studies
The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating
My title, I must say at the outset, is not of my own invention. It is one of Herman Melville's-the title of a climactic chapter in his The Confidence-Man (1857), the bitter novel with which he seems to have hoped to undermine what he had come to judge were the crumbling foundations of 19th-century American culture. The ConfidenceMan is, in effect, the fantastic story of a 19th-century shape-shifter, who, on a voyage on a riverboat ironically call…
Errand into the Wilderness
Art in Culture
The Continuity of American Poetry
Form and Fable in American Fiction
The Continuity of American Poetry
Wallace Stevens
Hawthorne Centenary Essays
Hawthorne Centenary Essays
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