Steven Marcus

Steven Marcus
Born(1928-12-13)December 13, 1928
New York City
DiedApril 25, 2018(2018-04-25) (aged 89)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Literary Critic, Professor
Education
Alma materColumbia University
Philosophical work
Main interestsLiterary criticism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, pornography
Notable worksThe Other Victorians (1966)
Notable ideasPornotopia

Steven Paul Marcus (December 13, 1928 – April 25, 2018) was an American academic and literary critic who published influential psychoanalytic analyses of the novels of Charles Dickens and Victorian pornography. He was George Delacorte Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University.