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Leonard Tennenhouse  
Professor and Department Chair

Office Location: 312A Allen
Office Phone: (919) 684-2203
Email Address: l.tennenhouse@duke.edu

Teaching (Fall, 2009):

  • English 129g.01, Shakespeare Synopsis
    Allen 317, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Office Hours:

Wednesday 11:30-1:00pm and by appointment

Education and Interests:

PhD, University of Rochester

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. (with Nancy Armstrong). "The Problem of Population and the Form of the American Novel." American Literary History 20.4 (Winter, 2008): 667-686.  [author's comments]
  2.  The Importance of Feeling English in America: American Literature and the English Diaspora, 1750-1850. Princeton University Press, 2007.
  3. "The Early American Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 40.1-2 (2007, 2008)
  4. (with Nancy Armstrong). The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
  5.  Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres. New York and London: Methuen, 1986; reprint 2004.