American Studies in Europe, Volume 1: Their History and Present Organization

by Sigmund Skard

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512813715
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1958
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sigmund Skard, born in 1903, was educated a the Sorbonne and Oslo, where he taught comparative literature from 1933 to 1938. In 1941-45 he was in American government service in Washington, D.C., after which he took up the position of Professor of American Literature at the University of Oslo.