
"The Novel and the Will: Rethinking the Subject of Modernity"
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This event is hosted by The English Department's American Area Seminar, which works to advance scholarship in American literature with faculty and graduate students at Notre Dame. The event is co-sponsored by The Department of American Studies and The Program of Liberal Studies.
Jennifer Fleissner is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism and Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem, along with numerous essays published in such journals as ELH, Critical Inquiry, American Literary History, American Literature, NOVEL, J19, differences, and Studies in Romanticism, as well as in such collections as The Cambridge History of the American Novel.