LEONARD TENNENHOUSE

Professor Tennenhouse writes on 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century British and American literatures, transatlantic literary relations, and the history of print culture.

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Biography

The author of Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres (1986) and with Nancy Armstrong, The Imaginary Puritan (1992), his most recent book is The Importance of Being English in America, American Literature and the English Diaspora, 1750-1850 (forthcoming 2007). He edited a critical edition The Tudor Interludes of Nice Wanton and Impatient Poverty (1984); a special issue of NOVEL on the Early American Novel (forthcoming 2007); with Nancy Armstrong, two collections of critical essays, The Violence of Representation: Studies in Literature and the History of Violence (1989) and The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality (1987); with Philip Gould, a special issue of the journal differences titled America the Feminine (2000). He has also published numerous articles on 16th, 17th, and 18th-century English and American literature.

Curricum Vitae

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LEONARD TENNENHOUSE, Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1970B.A. Wayne State University, 1965
Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
English, Comparative Literature, and Modern Culture and Media
Phone: +1 401 863 3732
E-mail: Leonard_Tennenhouse@Brown.EDU

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