Lois Whitney | |
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| Born | October 14, 1892 Oberlin, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | February 1982 (aged 89) |
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| Thesis | Studies in eighteenth century primitivistic theories of epic origins (1921) |
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| Discipline | English literature |
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Lois Whitney (October 14, 1892 – February 1982) was an American academic of English literature and painter who published the 1934 book Primitivism and the Idea of Progress in English Popular Literature of the Eighteenth Century. She worked as an English professor in Vassar College and Russell Sage College, and during her free time was a painter.