Gender Must Be Defended
November 17, 2008
Dr. Nancy Armstrong
Professor of English, Duke University
Author of such books as Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel, How Novels Think: British Fiction and the Limits of Individualism, and Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism, Professor Armstrong utilizes the Victorian novel to consider how to conceptualize gender in the aftermath of identity politics.
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities