Anderson, Charles Roberts, 1902-1999

Author and English professor, Duke University.

From the description of Charles Roberts Anderson papers, 1955-1984. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31421816

Anderson was a scholar of American Literature. He served on the faculties of Duke University (1930-1941) and Johns Hopkins University (1941-1969).

From the description of Charles Roberts Anderson papers, 1806-1993 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46345756

• 1902: Charles Roberts Anderson born in Macon, Georgia
• 1930: Joined faculty of the English Department at Duke University
• 1936: Received doctorate from Columbia University; thesis was on Herman Melville's naval career
• 1939: Published Melville in the South Seas
• 1941: Appointed to faculty of Johns Hopkins University, in part to serve as general editor of the centennial edition of the collected works of Sydney Lanier, published in 1946
• 1949 - 1970s : Became sought-after as an international lecturer on American literature, traveling to Heidelberg University (1949), the University of Rome (1952-1953), Japan (1954), and the University of Torino (1960); during the 1960s and 1970s the U.S. Department of State engaged him for a lecture tour of Japan, Southeast Asia, the Balkans, and other countries
• 1960: Published Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise, which received the Christian Gauss Book Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 1962
• 1965: Edited the two-volume anthology, American Literary Masters
• 1968: Publication of The Magic Circle of Walden
• 1976: Memorial to Henry James unveiled at Westminster Abbey
• 1977: Published Person, Place, and Thing in Henry James's Novels, for which he won a second Christian Gauss award
• 1999: Died in Charleston, S.C.

From the guide to the Charles Roberts Anderson Papers, and undated, 1806-1993, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)