Background
Mizruchi, Susan Laura was born on July 13, 1959 in Cortland, New York, United States. Daughter of Ephraim Harold and Ruth (Trachtenberg) Mizruchi.
( In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that t...)
In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists. Using nineteenth-century theories of history as well as recent narratological models, she examines reconstructions of the past in The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Bostonians (1886), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and An American Tragedy (1925). Her special focus allows us to see that the efforts (on the part of characters and narrators alike) to reshape the past reveal both anxieties about the self and larger struggles for political power. Professor Mizruchi demonstrates the deepening connections between narrative and political coercion from Hawthorne to Dreiser, whose novels (as she further shows) both incorporate, and portray their characters incorporating, the conditions of their contemporary worlds. Her argument addresses a major contemporary dialogue on the subversive qualities of American texts and the place of history in literary interpretation. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Mizruchi, Susan Laura was born on July 13, 1959 in Cortland, New York, United States. Daughter of Ephraim Harold and Ruth (Trachtenberg) Mizruchi.
Bachelor in English, Bachelor in History, Washington University, St. Louis, 1981. Master of Arts in English, Princeton University, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Princeton University, 1985.
Lecturer English,, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1985-1986;
assistant Professor of English,, Boston University, 1986-1992;
associate professor, Boston University, since 1992. Lecturer, consultant United States Information Agency, Washington, 1986. Reader, consultant Princeton University Press, since 1987.
Panelist, reviewer National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, since 1989. Research affiliate Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1990-1991.
( In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that t...)
( In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that t...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Literature Association, Northeastern Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, Harvard University Seminar for American Literature Scholars.
Married Sacvan Bercovitch, December 31, 1988. 1 child, Alexander Philip.