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(1928-2018) Scholar, literary critic. Steven Marcus was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York. He lived most of his life in New York City.

Full Name

Steven Paul Marcus

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline


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Professor Marcus attended William Howard Taft and DeWitt Clinton High Schools in the Bronx, New York.

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Professor Marcus taught for a time at City College of New York.

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LITWORK

Psychoanalysis And Culture


A series of nonfiction books edited with Arnold Cooper.

1928

BIRTH

Steven Paul Marcus was born in the Bronx, New York, on December 13, 1928.

1948

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Professor Marcus earned a bachelor's degree at Columbia University in 1948.

1963

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Professor Marcus began teaching at Columbia University in 1963.

1965

LITWORK

Dickens: from Pickwick to Dombey
Chatto & Windus
0701109564 / 978-0701109561
Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
Basic Books
1199299162 / 978-1199299161
Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

The World Of Modern Fiction
Simon & Schuster

Anthology edited by Professor Marcus.

1974

LITWORK

Engels, Manchester And The Working Class
Random House
0394465148 / 978-0394465142
Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

Representations: Essays on Literature and Society
Columbia University Press; Columbia University Press Morningside
023107400X / 978-0231074001
Nonfiction.

1977

LITWORK

Art, Politics And Will: Essays In Honor Of Lionel Trilling


Edited with Quentin Anderson and Stephen Donadio

1978

LITWORK

Doing Good: The Limits Of Benevolence
Pantheon Books
0394411331 / 978-0394411330
Nonfiction written with Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, and David Rothman.

1984

LITWORK

Freud And The Culture Of Psychoanalysis
Routledge
0415717205 / 978-0415717205
Nonfiction.

1995

LITWORK

Medicine And Western Civilization
Rutgers University Press
0813521890 / 978-0813521893
Nonfiction edited with David Rothman and Stephanie Kiceluk.

2018

DEATH

Steven Marcus died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on April 25, 2018.

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