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Arthur Hobson Quinn was born on February 9, 1875 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Michael A. Quinn and Mary MacDonough.
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Arthur Hobson Quinn was born on February 9, 1875 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Michael A. Quinn and Mary MacDonough.
Arthur Quinn received the Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894 and at once embarked upon a career at that institution, as instructor of mathematics (1894 - 1895) and then English (1895 - 1904). After a year studying modern philology at the University of Munich (1897 - 1898), Quinn received the Ph. D. at Pennsylvania in 1899.
Quinn's academic climb was rapid and he was appointed full professor in 1908. Quinn had begun to write fiction shortly after his graduation, and his first book, Pennsylvania Stories (1899), dealt with undergraduate life. He organized and directed the first summer school at the university (1904), and served as dean of the undergraduate college from 1912 to 1922. Although the subjects in which Quinn remained most interested had not fully attained academic respectability in the early years of the twentieth century, he gave the first graduate course in American literature in 1905 and the first course in American drama in 1918. A proselyte for the importance of native culture, he edited influential anthologies of American drama and other creative writing, and wrote histories of American fiction and drama that long remained standard reference works.
Among the most notable editions of Arthur Quinn are Representative American Plays (1917; revised 1953), Contemporary American Plays (1923), The Literature of America (with A. C. Baugh and W. D. Howe, 1929; revised 1938), The Early Plays of James A. Herne (1940), and The Complete Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (with E. H. O'Neill, 1946). At the time of its publication the last, though it skimped on the nonfiction prose, was the largest collection of Poe's writings in print; it also made a notable advance in textual accuracy. Quinn's important contributions to the history of the American theater began with his article on early drama in volume I of the Cambridge History of American Literature (1917). He later served on councils dedicated to supporting the performing arts, notably that which organized the American National Theater in 1923. The capstone of his work in this field was the comprehensive two-part study A History of the American Drama From the Beginning to the Civil War (1923; revised 1943) and A History of the American Drama From the Civil War to the Present Day (2 vols. , 1927; revised in 1 vol. , 1936). The product of much original research (especially in the earlier periods) and of playgoing, these volumes remain highly useful for their play lists and bibliographies. Less comprehensive and now dated in some of its critical estimates is American Fiction (1936).
Quinn's secondary interest in fiction led him to undertake one of his most important contributions to scholarship, Edgar Allan Poe (1941). This study was an attempt rigorously to separate fact from the many legends that had grown up around Poe, and in preparing it Quinn exhumed significant new data--especially his revelation of the full extent of the forgeries committed by Poe's literary executor, Rufus W. Griswold.
The longest and most comprehensive one-volume history of American writing, it was honored by the Athenaeum Club of Philadelphia as the best book of 1951.
Quinn was named John Welsh centennial professor of history and English literature in 1939, a chair from which he retired in 1945. Quinn's anthologies served the needs of students for several decades, and he still merits recognition for solid contributions to the history of American drama and fiction. He died on October 16, 1960.
Among the most notable editions of Arthur Hobson Quinn in America were Representative American Plays (1917; revised 1953), Contemporary American Plays (1923), The Literature of America (with A. C. Baugh and W. D. Howe, 1929; revised 1938), The Early Plays of James A. Herne (1940), and The Complete Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (with E. H. O'Neill, 1946). Quinn's secondary interest in fiction led him to undertake one of his most important contributions to scholarship, Edgar Allan Poe (1941).
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Arthur Quinn married Helen McKee on May 31, 1904. They had five children.
