Book · December 26, 2017
Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. ...
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Book · 2014
This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. ...
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Book · December 2, 2013
First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. ...
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Book · 2006
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries. ...
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Book · 1999
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The Victorian novel's collaboration with photography was indeed so successful, Armstrong contends, that literary criticism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph. ...
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Book · January 1991
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Si una de las conquistas principales del feminismo de los años 70 fue el reconocimiento de que “lo privado es público”, el libro de Nancy Armstrong convierte lo que era un eslogan político en un presupuesto epistemológico y un punto ... ...
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