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Jonathan Brody Kramnick

Jonathan Brody Kramnick

Associate Professor of English

Contact Information
Office:

36 Union Street, 208

Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: kramnick@gmail.com
Telephone: (732) 932-3128
Office Hours:

On leave 2007-08

Specialization
restoration and eighteenth-century literature; the history of criticism and literary study; literature and philosophy
Biography

B.A., Cornell; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Professor Kramnick's recent publications include Making the English Canon: Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770 (Cambridge University Press, 1999); "Locke's Desire," The Yale Journal of Criticism (Fall 1999); "Literary Criticism Among the Disciplines," Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 2002); "Rochester and the History of Sexuality," ELH (Summer 2002); "Locke, Haywood and Consent," ELH (Summer 2005). He is currently completing a book entitled Uneasiness: Intimacy and Agency from Hobbes to Richardson.

Publications
Making the English Canon: Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770

"Empiricism, Cognitive Science, and the Novel."  The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 2007.

"Locke, Haywood, and Consent."  ELH, Volume 72, Number 2, Summer 2005.

"Rochester and the History of Sexuality."  ELH, Volume 69, Number 2, Summer 2002.

"Literary Criticism Among the Disciplines."  Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 35, Number 3, Spring 2002.

"Locke's Desire."  The Yale Journal of Criticism, Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 1999.

Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Sensibility and the Gothic

Women Writers of the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century

English Literary History, Medieval to Eighteenth-Century

Principles of Literary Study

Eighteenth-Century Novel

Literature and Philosophy, Bacon to Kant

Sexuality and Modernity, 1600-1800

Clarissa and Tom Jones

Institutions of the British Enlightenment

Introduction to Graduate Study

Thinking in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

 
 
 
 
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