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Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
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Scholarly Works - Books


Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing

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. ... Cite

The Ideology of Conduct: (Routledge Revivals) Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality

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. ... Cite

The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals): Literature and the History of Violence

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. ... Cite

Theories of the Novel Now, I, II, III

Book · 2011 A Sequence of 3 special issues of Novel: A Forum on Fiction ... Cite

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Book · 2006 A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries. ... Cite

Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism

Book · 1999 Featured Publication 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. ... Cite

Deseo y ficción doméstica: Una Historia Política De La Novela

Book · January 1991 Featured Publication 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 ... ... Cite