Many of the materials developed for that course found their way into The Art of Literary Research, published in 1963. Altick's graduate course in bibliography and research methods, English 980, became known for the strenuous demands he made upon his students. He returned to Franklin and Marshall in 1941 to teach, but in 1945 joined the English faculty of Ohio State University, where he would remain until his retirement in 1982. in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1941 with a dissertation on the 18th-century poet Richard Owen Cambridge. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1936 and received a Ph.D. Richard Daniel Altick (Septem– February 7, 2008) was an American literary scholar, known for his pioneering contributions to Victorian Studies, as well as for championing both the joys and the rigorous methods of literary research.Īltick was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area he would later recall in Of a Place and a Time (1991).
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