Leonard Tennenhouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 995067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Tennenhouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Tennenhouse |
| SIGNATURE | TENNENHOUSE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community
Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse In this essay, we propose an alternative to the mainstream of novel criticism, which links the novel to the modern nation—whether as a symptom of the nation’s emergence, as the means of producing subjects to inhabit it, or as a representation of the nation that makes that nation seem necessary to the existence of its population. To accomplish thi…
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals): Literature and the History of Violence
First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasin…
Unsettling Novels of the Early Republic
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
Book Review| March 01 2010 Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England Leonard Tennenhouse Leonard Tennenhouse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-073 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard…
Sovereignty and the Form of Formlessness
This essay argues that sovereignty, both the form of government and the law it constitutes, can be understood in terms of what it keeps out and at bay-namely, historically specific forms of formlessness. Assuming that formlessness does indeed have a form, the authors see it emerging in Jacobean tragedy whenever something happens to the body of the legitimate monarch and poses a threat to culture itself, endangering kinship along with the metaphys…
Libertine America
leonard tennenhouse, the author of Power on Display,and (with Nancy Armstrong) The Imaginary Puritan, is writing a book on transatlantic literary relations in the long eighteenth century
The Americanization of Clarissa
The Americanization of Clarissa Leonard Tennenhouse (bio) In his Pulitzer-Prize winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood lists Clarissa among such works as The Vicar of Wakefield and Chesterfield's Letters which Americans cherished for warning them against "[t]he evils of parental tyranny and the harsh and arbitrary modes of child rearing of an older and more sage age." 1 Nor is this distinguished American historian al…
The Case of the Resistant Captive
Research Article| October 01 1996 The Case of the Resistant Captive Leonard Tennenhouse Leonard Tennenhouse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 919–946. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-919 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard Tennenhouse; The Case of the Resistant Captive. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 199…
The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
The American Origins of the English Novel
Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse; The American Origins of the English Novel, American Literary History, Volume 4, Issue 3, 1 October 1992, Pages 386–41
The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams, 1650-1717
Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse, The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams, 1650-1717, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4, Special Issue: The Politics of Difference (Summer, 1990), pp. 458-478
Simulating History: A Cockfight for Our Times
Jean Baudrillard uses the term simulacrum to describe his position as culture critic. While little of what he says about this world is original beyond identifying it with the simulacrum from Ecclesiastes, the metaphor does lend his account unique explanatory power. He abstracts the logic of the figure from a Jorge Luis Borges story, where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the (Baudrillard 1…
Gender and the Work of Words
The authors would like to acknowledge the Rockefeller Foundation's support for Nancy Armstrong's research on this project. We thank the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, for providing the intellectual environment where we drafted this essay. We especially thank Henry Abelove, Michael Denning, and Catherine Hall for their scholarly advice on our historical research, and Rey Chow, Lisa Lowe, George Mariscal, and Masao Miyoshi for thei…
In Brief
Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Comic Transformations in Shakespeare
Ruth Nevo. Comic Transformations in Shakespeare. London-New York: Methuen and Co., 1980. vi + 242 pp. 9.95. - David Farley-Hills. The Comic in Renaissance Comedy. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. x+ 189 pp. $26.50. - Volume 35 Issue 4
Libertine America
leonard tennenhouse, the author of Power on Display,and (with Nancy Armstrong) The Imaginary Puritan, is writing a book on transatlantic literary relations in the long eighteenth century
The Americanization of Clarissa
The Americanization of Clarissa Leonard Tennenhouse (bio) In his Pulitzer-Prize winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood lists Clarissa among such works as The Vicar of Wakefield and Chesterfield's Letters which Americans cherished for warning them against "[t]he evils of parental tyranny and the harsh and arbitrary modes of child rearing of an older and more sage age." 1 Nor is this distinguished American historian al…
Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community
Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse In this essay, we propose an alternative to the mainstream of novel criticism, which links the novel to the modern nation—whether as a symptom of the nation’s emergence, as the means of producing subjects to inhabit it, or as a representation of the nation that makes that nation seem necessary to the existence of its population. To accomplish thi…
The Case of the Resistant Captive
Research Article| October 01 1996 The Case of the Resistant Captive Leonard Tennenhouse Leonard Tennenhouse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 919–946. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-919 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard Tennenhouse; The Case of the Resistant Captive. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 199…
Comic Transformations in Shakespeare
Ruth Nevo. Comic Transformations in Shakespeare. London-New York: Methuen and Co., 1980. vi + 242 pp. 9.95. - David Farley-Hills. The Comic in Renaissance Comedy. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. x+ 189 pp. $26.50. - Volume 35 Issue 4
Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Gender and the Work of Words
The authors would like to acknowledge the Rockefeller Foundation's support for Nancy Armstrong's research on this project. We thank the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, for providing the intellectual environment where we drafted this essay. We especially thank Henry Abelove, Michael Denning, and Catherine Hall for their scholarly advice on our historical research, and Rey Chow, Lisa Lowe, George Mariscal, and Masao Miyoshi for thei…
In Brief
The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams, 1650-1717
Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse, The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams, 1650-1717, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4, Special Issue: The Politics of Difference (Summer, 1990), pp. 458-478
Simulating History: A Cockfight for Our Times
Jean Baudrillard uses the term simulacrum to describe his position as culture critic. While little of what he says about this world is original beyond identifying it with the simulacrum from Ecclesiastes, the metaphor does lend his account unique explanatory power. He abstracts the logic of the figure from a Jorge Luis Borges story, where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the (Baudrillard 1…
The American Origins of the English Novel
Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse; The American Origins of the English Novel, American Literary History, Volume 4, Issue 3, 1 October 1992, Pages 386–41
The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life
The Case of the Resistant Captive
Research Article| October 01 1996 The Case of the Resistant Captive Leonard Tennenhouse Leonard Tennenhouse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 919–946. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-919 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard Tennenhouse; The Case of the Resistant Captive. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 199…
The Americanization of Clarissa
The Americanization of Clarissa Leonard Tennenhouse (bio) In his Pulitzer-Prize winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood lists Clarissa among such works as The Vicar of Wakefield and Chesterfield's Letters which Americans cherished for warning them against "[t]he evils of parental tyranny and the harsh and arbitrary modes of child rearing of an older and more sage age." 1 Nor is this distinguished American historian al…
Libertine America
leonard tennenhouse, the author of Power on Display,and (with Nancy Armstrong) The Imaginary Puritan, is writing a book on transatlantic literary relations in the long eighteenth century
Sovereignty and the Form of Formlessness
This essay argues that sovereignty, both the form of government and the law it constitutes, can be understood in terms of what it keeps out and at bay-namely, historically specific forms of formlessness. Assuming that formlessness does indeed have a form, the authors see it emerging in Jacobean tragedy whenever something happens to the body of the legitimate monarch and poses a threat to culture itself, endangering kinship along with the metaphys…
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
Book Review| March 01 2010 Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England Leonard Tennenhouse Leonard Tennenhouse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-073 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leonard…
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals): Literature and the History of Violence
First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasin…
Unsettling Novels of the Early Republic
Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community
Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse In this essay, we propose an alternative to the mainstream of novel criticism, which links the novel to the modern nation—whether as a symptom of the nation’s emergence, as the means of producing subjects to inhabit it, or as a representation of the nation that makes that nation seem necessary to the existence of its population. To accomplish thi…
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