...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... secrecy genre confessions This essay comes out of a panel organized by the Society for Novel Studies on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction . I would like to start by considering another panel organized by the same society...

.... 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...

... 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...

... the first printing of a novel sold well, the author’s name might be added to subsequent editions and subsequent works by the same individual, creating a brand of sorts. John Bender’s Imagining the Penitentiary and, albeit indirectly, Nancy Armstrong’s Desire and Domestic Fiction (both 1987) presumed...

... 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...

..., 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...

... middles” of nineteenth-century realist novels. 2 The detailed descriptions in realist fiction illustrate the genre’s development alongside new techniques and technologies of seeing, specifically what Nancy Armstrong ( 2002 : 5) calls the “mutually authorizing relationship between fiction...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...