Henry Nash Smith - Wikipedia Henry Nash Smith From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Henry Nash Smith (September 29, 1906 – June 6, 1986) was a scholar of American culture and literature. He was co-founder of the academic discipline "American studies". He was also a noted Mark Twain scholar, and the curator of the Mark Twain Papers. Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Further reading 5 References 6 See also Life[edit] He taught at University of Minnesota,[1] University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, and University of California, Berkeley, from 1953 to 1960, becoming professor emeritus.[2] A decade after he moved to Berkeley in 1953, Smith found himself immersed in a series of successive and related political actions, among which were the Free Speech movement, the anti-war protests and other protest movements. Smith participated actively in some of these movements. [3] His book Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (1950) gave name to the Myth and Symbol School, which provided the paradigm of the American Studies until the 1980s. It was the first PhD thesis of the History of American Civilization course at Harvard University; therefore its publication can be seen as the hour of birth for American studies. The book's topic was the collective perception of the American West of the 19th century. Smith used sources such as dime novels and other popular culture material. He was associated with Leo Marx and John William Ward. In his essay Can American Studies Develop a Method? (American Quarterly 9, 1957: 197-208), to date frequently anthologized, Smith expressed influential objectives and methodology of the Myth and Symbol School. He married Elinor Smith; they had children Harriet Elinor Smith, Janet Carol Smith, and Mayne Smith.[4] He died on June 6, 1986, following a car accident on May 30 near Elko, Nevada. Awards[edit] 1951 Bancroft Prize Works[edit] Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, 1950 (reprint Vintage Books, 1957; Harvard University Press, 1970, ISBN 978-0-674-93955-4) Mark Twain of the Enterprise, 1957 Mark Twain: the development of a writer Belknap Press, 1962 Mark Twain's fable of progress: political and economic ideas in "A Connecticut Yankee.", Rutgers University Press, 1964 Popular Culture and Industrialism 1865-1890, 1967 Democracy and the Novel, 1978. Further reading[edit] John William Ward 1955. Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age. New York: Oxford University Press. John William Ward. 1969 Red, White, and Blue: Men, Books, and Ideas in American Culture . New York: Oxford University Press Marx, Leo (1964). The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press.[6] Marx, Leo (1989). The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press Ward, David C. 2004 Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic Berkley, California : University of California Press (John William Ward son's book, who went on to become Senior Historian at the National Portrait Gallery) Lewis, R. W. B. 1955. The American Adam; Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press. Matthiessen, F. O. 1949. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. Harvard, Boston Meyers, Marvin 1957 The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Belief Stanford Press, California Hofstadter, Richard. 1955. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. References[edit] ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-01-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ "Henry Nash Smith Dies at 79; Berkeley Mark Twain Scholar". New York Times. June 6, 1986. ^ Richard Bridgeman, In Memoriam: The American Studies of Henry Nash Smith, in: The American Scholar , Spring 1987, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Spring 1987), pp. 259-268. ^ "Henry Nash Smith Dies at 79; Berkeley Mark Twain Scholar". New York Times. June 6, 1986. See also[edit] etext of Virgin Land Synopsis of Virgin Land American literature, culture, and ideology: essays in memory of Henry Nash Smith, Beverly Rose Voloshin (ed), P. Lang, 1990, ISBN 978-0-8204-0850-7 Guide to the Henry Nash Smith Papers at The Bancroft Library Works by or about Henry Nash Smith in libraries (WorldCat catalog) John William Ward Authority control BIBSYS: 90136066 BNF: cb12342410p (data) GND: 118946544 ISNI: 0000 0001 1593 1826 LCCN: n50013433 NKC: mub2014809032 NTA: 068964277 PLWABN: 9810559850005606 SNAC: w69d1597 SUDOC: 032383924 VIAF: 9922258 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50013433 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Nash_Smith&oldid=1003633023" Categories: 1906 births 1986 deaths Harvard University alumni American social scientists American literary critics 20th-century American non-fiction writers Bancroft Prize winners Hidden categories: CS1 maint: archived copy as title Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages العربية Deutsch مصرى Edit links This page was last edited on 29 January 2021, at 22:51 (UTC). 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