Nancy Armstrong Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English and Editor, Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Office Location: 304C Allen Building, English Dept. Allen Building
Office Phone: (919) 613 6827
Email Address: n.b.armstrong@duke.edu
Teaching (Fall, 2009):
- English 90bs.02, Reading historically
Synopsis
- Allen 317, MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 2:30-4 pm and by appointment
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1977).
- Representative Publications
- How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism 1719-1900. Columbia University Press, 2005.
- Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Harvard University Press, 1999.
- (with Leonard Tennenhouse) The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. University of California Press, 1992.
- Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987.
