Nancy Armstrong

Nancy Armstrong

Nancy Armstrong (born 1938) is a scholar, critic and is a professor of English at Duke University.

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Overview

Before moving to Duke, Armstrong was the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies at Brown University. She is interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American fiction, empire and sexuality, narrative and critical theory, and visual culture. She is best known for her groundbreaking book on the relationship between subjectivity and the novel, Desire and Domestic Fiction.

Life and work

Armstrong's most influential book is Desire And Domestic Fiction: A Political History Of The Novel (Oxford University Press, 1987), a work of scholarship still relevant twenty years after its publication. As one reviewer put it, the book "changed the ways in which feminist critics of these novels saw the work these texts did; it changed the way we thought about public and private, agency and oppression, writing and action, giving us a far broader sense of the cultural work that novels do, as they translate political information into narratives about sex, gender, and desire."[1]

Over the course of her career, Armstrong has published many books and nearly one hundred articles and chapters.[1] Her two recent books are How Novels Think: British fiction and the Limits of Individualism (Columbia University Press, 2005), which is about the relationship between the formation of the modern individual and the genre of the novel, and Fiction in The Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Harvard University Press, 1999), which lays out a theory of realism that connects visual culture and fiction.

In 1992, Armstrong published, together with Leonard Tennenhouse, "a pioneer[ing] study in the field of transatlantic literary relations", The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, And The Origins Of Personal Life (University of California Press, 1992), which looks at the relationship between the author and the emerging nation-state.[1]

Armstrong is currently working on a project provisionally titled Gothic Remains. She is also managing editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction and co-editor of Encyclopedia of British Literary History.[1]

Armstrong received her B.A. in 1966 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977. She is a past president of the Semiotic Society of America (1992).

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Nancy Armstrong". Brown University. Retrieved on 28 August 2007.

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