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Larzer Ziff, a globally renowned scholar of American literary culture and intellectual history and an inspirational mentor, died Nov. 25. Ziff, a professor emeritus and research professor in the Department of English, was 97.

In his widely influential scholarship, Ziff focused on the material, social, and political circumstances that both shape literary production and are affected by it.

He investigated the Puritan period, the age of Emerson, the American fin-de-siècle, and the emergence of travel writing.

"Larry Ziff was a prodigious scholar of 18th- and 19th-century American literature," said Sharon Cameron, professor emerita in the Department of English.

Cameron described him as "a beloved undergraduate teacher whose large lecture course on the sweep of American literature introduced students to Christopher Lazar - Biography - IMDb XEN