Leonard TennenhouseLeonard Tennenhouse  
Professor and Department Chair

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

Office Hours:

Fall 2011
Wednesdays 3:00-4:00pm
and by appointment

Education:

PhD, University of Rochester

BA, Wayne State University
Specialties:

Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
American Literature
Transatlantic Studies
Critical Theory
Eighteenth Century Literature
Novels

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.