Research Interests for Marianna Torgovnick

Marianna Torgovnick writes on the novel and novel theory, postcolonialism, modernism, and the twentieth century more generally, and especially on contemporary American issues. She specializes equally in British and American literature and culture. She has published Closure in the Novel (Princeton, 1981), and The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf (Princeton, 1985), Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives (Chicago, 1990). and Crossing Ocean Parkway (Chicago, 1994), for which she won an American Book Award. Her most recent book is Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy (Knopf, 1997; paperback Chicago, 1998). She is now writing a study called Saving World War II, about memories and perceptions as the century ends. Professor Torgovnick is currently teaching in New York through the Duke in New York Program. For more information, visit her website www.duke.edu/~tor

Areas of Interest:

British Literature
19th-20th Century Novel

Recent Publications

1. Torgovnick, M, Closure in the novel (January, 2017), pp. 1-238, Princeton UP, ISBN 9780691064642 [abs] [author's comments]
2. Torgovnick, M, The Novelist's Wife (2015) [abs]
3. Torgovnick, M, Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (February, 2014)
4. Torgovnick, M, Review of Barbara Tuchman’s Edging Women Out, Modern Philology (February, 2014)
5. Torgovnick, M, Review of Robert Viscusi’s Astoria, Italian Americana (February, 2014)