Imaginary Puritan - Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life

"A tour de force that reconceptualizes literary history and repositions British literature to claim the imperial and trans-Atlantic origins of the British novel. "—Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of Disorderly Conduct

"A very exciting piece of work, with important implications for how we conceive projects in literary, intellectual, and cultural history. . . . It is sure to be a controversial study, but it will get serious attention, not just as a study of 'novels' and texts but as a provocative account of English history and of models for studying history."—J. Paul Hunter, author of Before Novels

About the author

Nancy Armstrong is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Leonard Tennenhouse is Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Armstrong, Nancy Tennenhouse Armstrong, Armstrong Nancy, Leonard Tennenhouse
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780520308961
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30896-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary theory