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Publications of Leonard Tennenhouse    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  The Importance of Feeling English in America: American Literature and the English Diaspora, 1750-1850. Princeton University Press, 2007.
  2.  Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres. New York and London: Methuen, 1986; reprinted 2004.
  3. (with Nancy Armstrong). The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
  4.  The Tudor Interludes of Nice Wanton and Impatient Poverty. The Renaissance Imagination Series, Garland, 1984.

Edited

  1. L. Tennenhouse, Guest Editor. The Early American Novel. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 40.1-2 (2008).
  2. with Philip Gould. America the Feminine. differences 11.3 (Fall, 2000).
  3. with Nancy Armstrong. The Violence of Representation: Studies in Literature and the History of Violence.  Routledge, 1989
  4. with Nancy Armstrong. The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality.  Methuen, 1987
  5.  The Practice of Psychoanalytic Criticism.  Wayne State University Press, 1976

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. L. Tennenhouse. ""Unsettling Novels of the Early Republic." Oxford History of the Novel in English. Ed. Gerald Kennedy and Leland Person. Oxford University Press, 2011. ms. pp. 27.
  2. L. Tennenhouse. "“The Early American Novel,”." The Encyclopedia of the Novel, eds. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 263-67.. Ed. Peter Melville Logan, Susan Hegeman, Olakunle George, and Efrain Kristal. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 
  3. with Nancy Armstrong. "Sovereignty and the Form of Formlessness." differences Special issue.20.2-3 (2009): 148-78.
  4. (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]
  5. "Is There an Early American Novel?." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 40.1-2 (2007, 2008)
  6. "The Early American Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 40.1-2 (2007, 2008)
  7. "The Coffeehouse." The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press, 2006.
  8. with Nancy Armstrong. "A Mind for Passion: Locke and Hutcheson on Desire." Politics and Passions 1500-1850. Ed. Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli. Princeton University Press, 2006. 131-151.
  9. "The Question of Cultural Bilingualism." Early American Literature 38 (2003): 135-8.
  10. "A Language for a Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic." Transatlantic Revolutions. Ed. W.M. Verhoeven. Palgrave, 2002. 62-84.
  11. "Carribbean Degeneracy and the Problem of Masculinity in Ormond." Finding Colonial Americas: Essays Honoring J.A. Leo Lemay. Ed. Carla Mulford and David S. Shields. University of Delaware Press, 2001. 104-124.
  12. "Libertine America." differencesAmerica the Feminine. 11.3 (Fall, 2000): 1-28. Fall, 2000. 1-28.
  13. with Nancy Armstrong. "The Literature of Conduct, the Conduct of Literature, and the Politics of Desire." Literary Criticism from 1400-1800. Ed. Larry Trudeau. Gale Research, 2000.
  14. "Violence Done to Women on the Renaissance Stage." Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Gale Research, 1999.  reprint from The Violence of Representation
  15. "Patriarchal Strategies in Shakespearean Romance." Ed. Kierman Ryan. Longman,  reprint from Power on Display
  16. "Violence Done to Women on the Renaissance Stage." The Violence of Representation.  1999. 77-97.
  17. "The American Richardson." Yale Journal of Criticism 12 (1998): 177-96.
  18. "Family Rites: Patriarchal Strategies in Shakespearean Romances." Shakespeare: The Last Plays. Ed. Kierman Ryan. Longman, 1997. 43-90. reprint from Power on Display
  19. "Twelfth Night." Twelfth Nigh: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. R.S. White. Macmillan, 1996. 82-91. reprint from Power on Display
  20. "The Case of the Resistant Captive." South Atlantic Quarterly 4 (1996): 919-46.  Portuguese translation, "A resistancia de cativo," Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais 49 (1997): 189-223
  21. "American Literary History in the Age of Critical Theory and Mulitculturalism." Modern Language Quarterly 56 (1995): 207-220.
  22. "King Lear: The Iconography of Power." King Lear: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Kierman Ryan. Macmillan, 1993. 60-72. reprint from Power on Display
  23. "Rituals of State/Strategies of Power." Shakespeare's History Plays Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Graham Holderness. Macmillan, 1993.  reprint from Power on Display
  24. with Nancy Armstrong. "A Novel Nation, or How to Rethink Modern England as Emergent Culture." Modern Language Quarterly 54 (1993): 327-44.  reprint in Eighteenth-Century Literary History, ed Marshall Brown (Duke Universtiy Press, 1999) 9-26
  25. with Nancy Armstrong. "History, Poststructuralism, and the Question iof Narrative." Narrative 1 (1993): 45-58.
  26. with Nancy Armstrong. "The American Origins of the English Novel." American Literary History 4 (Fall, 1992): 386-410.
  27. with Nancy Armstrong. "The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life."  University of California Press,
  28. "Power in Hamlet." Hamlet: Contemporary Critical Essays. Ed. Martin Coyle. Macmillan, 1992. 160=67. reprint from Power on Display
  29. "Hamlet and the Queen's Body." Essays on Renaissance Drama. Ed. Peter Stallybrass and David Kastan. Routledge, 1991.  reprint from Power on Display
  30. "Arcadian Rhetoric: Sidney and the Politics of Courtship." Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements. Ed. Michael J.B. Allen, Dominic Baker-Smith, Arthur F. Kinney, and Margaret M. Sullivan. AMS, 1990. 201-12.
  31. with Nancy Armstrong. "The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams, 1650-1717." Eighteenth-Century Studies 23 (1990): 458-78.
  32. "Simulating History: A Cockfight for Our Times." TDR: The Drama Review 34 (1990): 137-55.
  33. with Nancy Armstrong. "Gender and the Work of Words." Cultural Critique 13 (Fall, 1989): 229-78.
  34. L. Tennenhouse. "Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres."  Methuen,
  35. "Strategies of State and Political Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Henriad, and Henry VIII." Political Shakespeare. Ed. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Manchester University Press and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 109-28.
  36. "Sir Walter Raleigh and the Literature of Clientage." Patronage in the Renaissance. Ed. Guy Fitch Little and Stephen Orgel. Princeton University Press, 1981. 235-58.
  37. "The Hidden Order of the The Merchant of Venice." Representing Shakespeare; New Psychoanalytic Essays. Ed. Coppelia Kahn and Murray Schwartz. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 54-69. Reprint in The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays, ed. Thomas Wheeler. Garland, 1991.
  38. "Coriolanus: History and the Crisis of Semantic Order." Comparative Drama 10 (1977): 328-346.  reprint in Drama in the Renaissance, ed. Clifford Davidson (AMS,1984)
  39. "Balaam and Saul and the World of II Tamburlaine." Neuphilologische Mitteilugen 78 (1977): 115-17.
  40. "Beowulf and the Sense of History." Bucknell Review 19 (1971): 137-46.

Book Reviews

  1.  The Nationalism of the Transnational Novel: Mary Helen McMurran, Translation and the Spread of Novels in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010). Ms. 8 pps.  NOVEL (2011).
  2. Su Fang Ng. Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England.  Modern Philology (2009): viii + 236.
  3.  Revisiting A New World of Words.  Early American Literature 42.2 (2007): 363-68.
  4. Ross Chambers. Room for Maneuver: Reading (the) Oppositional (in) Narrative.  Modern Fiction Studies (1994): 438-41.
  5. Johnathan Crew. Hidden Designs: The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature.  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 88 (1989): 228-231.
  6. J.C. D. Clark. Revolution and Rebellion: State and society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.  History and Theory 27 (1988): 310-321.
  7. Robert Rentoul Reed, Jr.. Crime and God's Judgement in Shakespeare.  Renaissance Quarterly 38 (1985): 170-172.
  8. Ruth Nevo. Comic Transformations in Shakespeare.  Renaissance Quarterly 38 (1982): 663-65.
  9. David Farley-Hills. The Comic in Renaissance Comedy.  Renaissance Quarterly 35 (1982): 663-65.
  10. Martin S. Lindauer. The Psychological Study of Literature: Limitations and Accomplishments.  Philosophy and Literature 1 (1977): 247-248.

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