Myra Jehlen

Biographic Data

ID358316
NAMEMyra Jehlen
GIVEN NAMESMyra
FAMILY NAMEJehlen
SIGNATUREJEHLEN M
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia University of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX3

  • The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800

    Myra Jehlen, Michael WarnerBOOKEnglish Literatures of America2013

    The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. …

  • Five Fictions in Search of Truth

    Myra JehlenBOOKFive Fictions in Search of Truth2008

  • American Women Writers to 1800

    Kari J Winter, Sharon M Harris et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1997

  • Culture and Imperialism

    Myra JehlenREVIEWThe William and Mary Quarterly1994Cited by: 1

  • Response to Peter Hulme

    Myra JehlenARTICLECritical Inquiry1993Cited by: 3

  • History before the Fact; Or, Captain John Smith's Unfinished Symphony

    Myra JehlenARTICLECritical Inquiry1993Cited by: 8

  • Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism

    Myra JehlenCHAPTERFeminisms1991

  • Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism

    Myra Jehlen, Lawrence H SchwartzARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. By Lawrence H. Schwartz. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988. ix + 286 pp. $24.95.) Get access Myra Jehlen Myra Jehlen University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1321–1322, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936704 Published: 01 Marc…

  • Imitate Jesus and Socrates: The Making of a Good American

    Myra JehlenARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1990

    Research Article| July 01 1990 “Imitate Jesus and Socrates”: The Making of a Good American Myra Jehlen Myra Jehlen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (3): 501–524. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-89-3-501 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Myra Jehlen; “Imitate Jesus and Socrates”: The Making of a Good American. South Atlanti…

  • American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent

    Jack P Greene, Myra JehlenARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent. By Myra Jehlen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. xii + 253 pp. $20.00.) Get access Jack P. Greene Jack P. Greene Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Page 488, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900040 Published: 01 September 1987

  • American Incarnation: The Individual, The Nation, and The Continent

    Nina Baym, Myra JehlenARTICLEAmerican Literature1987

  • The "Idea" of the New World in American Fiction

    Open AccessJeffrey Walker, Cathy N Davidson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1987

  • Viaggio: Travels in the United States of North America, 1785-87

    Myra Jehlen, Luigi Castiglioni et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1985

  • Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism

    Open AccessMyra JehlenCHAPTERFeminisms1981

  • The Tongue of Power

    Myra Jehlen, Rachel Blau Duplessis et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies1981

  • Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism

    Myra JehlenARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1981Cited by: 8

  • J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur: A Monarcho-Anarchist in Revolutionary America

    Open AccessMyra JehlenARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1979Cited by: 3

    THE AUTHOR OF Letters from an American Farmer BOASTED THAT in America have no princes, for whom we toil, starve and bleed: we are most perfect society now existing in world. 1 But he opposed American Revolution and remained loyal to English crown, though his French origin alone should have made him its opponent. Before war he had declared that immigrants to America could never be expected to remain committed to European societies that condemned t…