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Against the Bildungsroman
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 13–19.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ian Duncan Abstract Trained on the history of the novel in English, Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction also illuminates continental European developments. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship , the prototype of the nineteenth-century “novel of development” (bildungsroman), forms itself...
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Social, Sexual, and Other Contracts in Eighteenth-Century Novels
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 21–27.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Deidre Lynch Abstract This essay highlights the role that Enlightenment conjectural histories and liberal concepts of contractual exchange play in Nancy Armstrong’s revisionist description of the rise of the novel. It urges scholars of the novel to follow the example of Desire and Domestic Fiction...
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Taking Responsibility in Desire and Domestic Fiction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rachel Ablow Abstract Nancy Armstrong famously identifies middle-class white Victorian women writers not just as passive victims of ideology but as possessors of relative privilege in relation to power. Even more radically, she identifies herself as possessing analogous forms of power as a woman...
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A Novel Nation; Or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 327–344.
Published: 01 September 1993
...Nancy Armstrong; Leonard Tennenhouse Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern
England as an Emergent Culture
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
n a note to Discipline and Punish, Foucault declares his intention to
I...
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Afterword: Waiting for Foucault
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Nancy Armstrong Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 I want to thank Jonathan Arac and John Plotz, past and current presidents of the Society for Novel Studies, and their executive board for choosing my first book as the topic of the SNS’s special session as an affiliated...
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Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Lloyd Pratt Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example . By Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 . 264 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 One of the most enduring...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2019
... at the 2018 Modern Language Association annual meeting. These pieces vividly demonstrate that Nancy Armstrong’s first book, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel , published by Oxford University Press in 1987, continues to inspire live thought. Armstrong’s book has provoked ongoing...
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How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900; The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 582–585.
Published: 01 December 2007
... On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Helpless” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900 . By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. The Body...
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Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 586–589.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of British Individualism from 1719 – 1900.
By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
x + 191 pp.
The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy
and the Victorian Novel. By Catherine Gallagher. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2006. 209 pp...
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Keeping Secrets
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 March 2019
...—both practical and abstract—on which criticism depends. Desire and Domestic Fiction , which focuses on the rewriting of the political and economic as the personal, offers a powerful lens for examining this process. References Armstrong Nancy . 1987 . Desire and Domestic Fiction...
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Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 575–578.
Published: 01 December 2007
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By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
x + 191 pp.
The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy
and the Victorian Novel. By Catherine Gallagher. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2006. 209 pp.
Apart from historical and generic focus...
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A New History of German Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 578–582.
Published: 01 December 2007
... recent books are Goethe as Woman: The Undoing of Literature (2001) and
All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater (2005).
doi 10.1215/00267929-2007-017
How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719 – 1900.
By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
x + 191...
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Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690–1730 Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
... narrative forms that emerged in the second were shaped by the effort to re-engineer the novel’s machinery in such a way as to mitigate what were seen as the negative consequences of that transformation” (4). John Bender’s Imagining the Penitentiary and, albeit indirectly, Nancy Armstrong’s Desire...
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MLQ and Marshall Brown among Their Peers
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 409–414.
Published: 01 September 2021
... discussed some aspects of this generational transfer in “Creative Strife” (Arac 2015 ). Nancy Armstrong also counterpoints Marshall as an inheritor who made something much more imposing. Novel: A Forum on Fiction was completing its third decade when she took over as editor in 1996. In “Getting to World...
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American Literary History in the Age of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism: The Cambridge of American Literature . Vol. I, 1590–1820
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 207–220.
Published: 01 June 1995
..., and English at Brown University. Coauthor (with Nancy Armstrong) of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (1992), he is working on a book about American sentimentalism. American Literary History in the Age
of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . References Armstrong Nancy . 2002 . Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Auyoung Elaine . 2015 . “ Rethinking the Reality Effect: Detail and the Novel .” In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies...
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Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 429–453.
Published: 01 December 1994
... the novel
represented the problem of a larger reading public and a commodi-
fied exchange of texts, Shakespeare (along with Milton, and to a lesser
1 Contemporary criticism, as far as the eighteenth century, is dominated by the
novel. See among others Nancy Armstrong, Desire...
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de-Familiarizing the Family; Or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 415–427.
Published: 01 December 1994
... the ongoing decade-long debate between Peter
Laslett and Lawrence Stone about the history of the family in England,
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse conclude in their analy-
sis of family historians that both men, whatever their differences, are
fixated on the conjugal bond in the nuclear...
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“Feminism in Time”: A Response
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... from various angles the important but neglected ques-
tion of the relationship between the lyric and historical temporality. It
is easy—and it has been productive—to treat novels as social and polit-
ical documents that record the travails of women and perhaps, as Nancy
Armstrong’s still...
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Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 210–215.
Published: 01 June 1991
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cause?) not always the most adventurous, since Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel
(1957).
Like Nancy Armstrong and Catherine Gallagher, Spacks wants to illuminate
significant correspondences among the novels of the eighteenth and nine-
teenth centuries. She proposes a five-part model...
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