Roy Harvey Pearce Papers

Biography

Roy Harvey Pearce has had a long and distinguished career in the field of literature. The founding father of both the UCSD literature department and the UCSD Archive for New Poetry, Pearce has also taught at the Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of THE SAVAGES OF AMERICA/SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION (1953/1983), THE CONTINUITY OF AMERICAN POETRY (1961), HAWTHORNE CENTENARY ESSAYS (1964), HISTORICISM ONCE MORE (1969), and GESTA HUMANORUM: STUDIES IN THE HISTORICIST MODE, as well as being the editor of COLONIAL AMERICAN WRITING (1950) and a general editior of THE CENTENARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1962-).

From the guide to the Roy Harvey Pearce Papers, 1945 - 1995, (Mandeville Special Collections Library)