THE ORIENT IN AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM. A Study Of Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott

Christy, Arthur

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1932

1st edition, 1932. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 382 pp., bound in dark blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Spine is slightly sunned with top and base rubbed. Columbia University Press review bookplate inside front cover, otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding is solid. Arthur Edward Christy was born of missionary parents in China in 1899. At sixteen years of age he came to the United States. He received his A.B. from Wheaton College (1922), and his A.M. (1926) and Ph.D. (1932) from Columbia University. In 1927 Christy was an instructor of English at Washington Square College (a part of New York University). Between 1930 and 1945, Christy served on the faculty of Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature and directed the Masters program in English. In 1935 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Intellectual History and American Literature. He spent one year as Professor of American Literature at the University of Illinois in 1945 before he died of a heart attack on July 8, 1946. Christy's major sphere of study was that of eastern literary influence in the western world. His interest in comparative literature appeared in his dissertation The Orient in American Transcendentalism. The work is a study of the readings in oriental literature of Emerson, Thoreau and Alcott. Seller Inventory # 31938

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Title: THE ORIENT IN AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM. A ...
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
Publication Date: 1932
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st edition.