Russel B. Nye
Russel Blaine Nye (February 17, 1913 – September 2, 1993) was an American professor of English who in the 1960s pioneered popular culture studies. He was the author of a dozen books, including ''George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel'' which won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.Born in Viola, Wisconsin, Nye received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1934 and his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in English the following year. In 1938 he married Kathryn Chaney, and in 1940 he completed his doctorate on George Bancroft again at the University of Wisconsin. Nye taught in the English department at Michigan State University from 1941 to 1979.
In 1957 after Ralph Ulveling, the director of the Detroit Public Library, claimed that L. Frank Baum's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' had no value and should not be stocked by libraries, Nye and Martin Gardner published a new critical edition of the novel highlighting its value, causing a firestorm of controversy, followed by eventual acceptance.
In 1970 he co-founded the Popular Culture Association with Ray B. Browne and Marshall Fishwick, working to shape a new academic discipline called Popular Culture Theory that blurred the traditional distinctions between high and low culture, focusing on mass culture mediums like television and the Internet, and cultural archetypes like comic book heroes.
He died in Lansing, Michigan in 1993. Provided by Wikipedia
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A baker's dozen: thirteen unusual Americans. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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Crises on campus. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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William Lloyd Garrison and the humanitarian reformers. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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Fettered freedom; civil liberties and the slavery controversy, 1830-1860. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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The cultural life of the new Nation, 1776-1830. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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Society and culture in America, 1830-1860. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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This almost chosen people; essays in the history of American ideas, by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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Midwestern progressive politics; a historical study of its origins and development, 1870-1958. by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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George Bancroft by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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The cultural life of the new Nation, 1776-1830 / by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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The unembarrassed muse: the popular arts in America, by Nye, Russel Blaine, 1913-
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New dimensions in popular culture.
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The history of the United States of America from the discovery of the continent. by Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
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