Jehlen, Myra

Myra Jehlen
Board of Governors Professor Emerita of English
At Rutgers Since: 1985
Retired Since: 2014
myrajehlen@gmail.com
Primary Areas of Specialization: Literature and Intellectual History; Nineteenth Century American Literature
Book(s):

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

Readings at the Edge of Literature

The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800
Bio: Professor Jehlen is the author of Readings at the Edge of Literature (2002), Class and Character in Faulkner's South (1976), American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent (1989), and "The Literature of Colonization" in Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820 (ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, 1994). She has also co-edited a number of volumes, including The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (1996), with Michael Warner. Her essays deal with American writing, comparative literature, and theoretical issues in literary interpretation and history.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley BA, The City University of New York

Other Publications

“Félicité and the Holy Parrot”
Raritan, Spring 2007
“Melville’s Concept of Class”
Oxford Companion to Melville (2005)
“Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans”
Il romanzo (2002)
“The Seditious Aesthetic of Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables” 6.1, 2002
“F.P.”
Raritan, Spring 2002
“Guggenheim in Bilbao”
Raritan, Spring 1999
"Faulkner and the Unnatural: The Hamlet”
Faulkner and the Natural World: Faulkner and Yoknaptawpha (1999)
"An Empire of One's Own: Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out"
La tipographia nel salotto: sagi su Virginia Woolf (1999)
“Multitudes and Multicultures”
After Consensus: Critical Change and Social Change in America (1998)
"History Beside the Fact: What We Learn from A True and Exact History of Barbadoes”
The Politics of Research (1997)
"Banned in Concord: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature"
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain (1995)
"History before the Fact; or, Captain John Smith's Unfinished Symphony"
Critical Inquiry, Summer 1993
“The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in Mark Twain's Pudd’nhead Wilson”
Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture (1990)

“F.P.” Raritan, Spring 2002; reprinted, Best Essays of 2002; Pushcart Essay, 2002.
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1961-1962, Dissertation Fellow 1964-1965;
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellow; 1974-1975;
National Humanities Center Fellow, 1985-1986; Guggenheim,1990-1991 (declined ACLS Fellowship to accept Guggenheim)

"The Library of America" by Myra Jehlen (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
"Christopher P. Iannini: New Faculty Profiles" by Myra Jehlen (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)