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Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor Emerita of English

n.b.armstrong@duke.edu

Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015

303 Allen Bldg, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708

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Fagin's Last Words

Journal article Mediations · 2021 Cite

Some Endangered Feeling

Journal article Daedalus · January 1, 2021 AbstractThis essay sees the recent trend in novels that feature damaged, partial, or wayward protagonists as the ascent of a tradition of formal outliers as old as the novel itself to a position of dominance ... Full text Cite

Why the Bildungsroman no longer works

Journal article Textual Practice · December 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Realism and Anachronism

Journal article Novel · August 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Why Looking Backward Is Necessary to Looking Forward

Journal article Victorian Literature and Culture · March 1, 2019 By treating the imaginary element that is sex, the deployment of sexuality established one of its most essential internal operating principles; the desire for sex - the desire to have it, to have access to it, to liberate it, to articulate it in discourse, ... Full text Cite

Looking Backward: the Victorian Origins of the Neoliberal Household

Journal article Victorian Literature and Culture · 2019 Cite

The Contemporary Disposition of the Novel

Journal article Continental Thought and Theory · 2019 Cite

Waiting for Foucault

Journal article MLQ · 2019 Cite

“What Use Is Althusser?”

Journal article Cultural Critique · 2019 Full text Cite

Afterword: Waiting for Foucault

Journal article Modern Language Quarterly · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Introduction: How do novels think about neoliberalism?

Journal article Novel · August 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Disavowal and Domestic Fiction: The Problem of Social Reproduction

Journal article differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 2018 Cite

How do Novels Think About Neo-liberalism?

Journal article Novel: A Forum on Fiction · 2018 Cite

Are novels literature?

Journal article Novel · November 1, 2017 Full text Cite

The figure in the carpet

Journal article Pmla · May 1, 2017 Full text Cite

One or Several Jane Eyres

Journal article Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies · 2017 Cite

Recalling Cora: Family Resemblances in the Last of the Mohicans

Journal article American Literary History · April 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Introduction: Property and Heterotopia"

Journal article Novel: A Forum on Fiction · 2016 Open Access Cite

Recalling Cora: Family Resemblances in the Last of the Mohicans.

Journal article American Literary History · 2016 Cite

The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction

Journal article Contemporary Literature · 2015 Cite

Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community

Journal article Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée · 2015 Full text Cite

Hawthorne on the Paradox of Popular Sovereignty

Journal article Novel: A Forum on Fiction · 2014 Cite

When Sympathy Fails: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction

Journal article SPELL: The Journal of the Swiss Professors of English Literature and Language · 2014 Cite

Gender Must Be Defended

Journal article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 2012 Full text Link to item Cite

The Victorian Archive and its Secret

Journal article NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTEXTS-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL · 2012 Full text Link to item Cite

The Future in and of the Novel: A Position Paper

Journal article NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION · 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

The future of the human: An introduction

Journal article Differences · December 1, 2009 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Editor's introduction: The way we read now

Journal article Novel · June 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Sovereignty and the Form of Formlessness

Journal article Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 2009 Full text Cite

The Problem of Population and the Form of the American Novel

Journal article American Literary History · 2008 Full text Cite

Professing Disciplinarity: A Position Paper

Journal article Victorian Review · 2007 Cite

How Novels Think

Journal article St. John’s University Humanities Review · 2006 Cite

Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promise of Dracula

Journal article differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 2005 Full text Cite

Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Journal article Nineteenth-Century Contexts · 2001 Full text Cite

Who's Afraid of the Cultural Turn?

Journal article differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 2001 Full text Cite

Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel

Journal article NOVEL (special issue in honor of Mark Spilka) · 1998 Cite

Modernism's Iconophobia and What it Did to Gender

Journal article Modernism/Modernity · 1998 Full text Cite

Fiction in the Age of Photography

Journal article Narrative · 1998 Cite

Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism

Journal article Yale Journal of Criticism · 1994 Cite

Semiotics and Family History

Journal article American Journal of Semiotics · 1993 Cite

Poststructuralism and the Question of History

Journal article Narrative · 1993 Cite

A Brief Genealogy of Theme

Journal article Harvard English Studies · 1993 Cite

A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture

Journal article Modern Language Quarterly · 1993 Full text Cite

The American Origins of the English Novel

Journal article American Literary History · 1992 Cite

Emily’s Ghost: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Fiction, Folklore

Journal article Novel: A Forum on Fiction · 1992 Cite

The American Origins of the English Novel

Journal article American Literary History · January 1992 Full text Cite

The Nineteenth-Century Austen: A Turn in the History of Fear

Journal article Genre · 1990 Cite

The Occidental Alice

Journal article differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 1990 Cite

The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams

Journal article Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies · 1990 Cite

The Pornographic Effect: A Response

Journal article American Journal of Semiotics · 1990 Cite

Gender and the Work of Words

Journal article Cultural Critique · 1989 Cite

Semiotics and Ideology

Journal article · 1988 Cite

The Gender Bind: Women and the Disciplines

Journal article Genders · 1988 Cite

O Critico e a Meretriz da Cultura: A Teoria América Pósmoderna

Journal article Revista Critica De Ciencias Socais · 1988 Cite

History in the House of Culture: Social Disorder and Domestic Fiction in Early Victorian England

Journal article Poetics Today · 1986 Cite

Introduction

Journal article Semiotica · January 1, 1985 Full text Cite

A Language of One’s Own: Communication Modeling Systems in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Journal article Language and Style · 1983 Cite

Domesticating the foreign Devil: structuralism in English letters a decade later

Journal article Semiotica · 1982 Cite

The Rise of Feminine Authority in the Novel

Journal article Novel: A Forum on Fiction · 1982 Cite

Emily Brontë In and Out of Her Time

Journal article Genre · 1982 Cite

Character, Closure, and Impressionist Fiction

Journal article Criticism · 1977 Cite

Do wasps just want to have fun?: Darwin and the question of variation

Journal article Differences Cite

The Sensation Novel

Journal article SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly Cite

Are Novels Literature? 50th Anniversary Issue

Journal article Novel: A Forum on Fiction Cite