Professor
Larzer Ziff
(
–
)
1927
2024
Johns Hopkins University
;
Baltimore, MD
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
1987
Research on American literary culture with attention to the material as well as social and political circumstances that both shape literary production and are affected by it. His literary histories have dealt with the Puritan period, the age of Emerson, the American fin-de-sicle, and, most recently, the emergence of travel writing as a profession and its function as a critique of domestic as well as an exposition of foreign culture. Current research centers on exploration and national consciousness.
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