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Elizabeth Duquette

Name: Elizabeth Duquette
Email: eduquett@gettysburg.edu
Title/Dept: Associate Professor, English

Box: Campus Box 0397
Address: Breidenbaugh Hall

North Washington St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400

Phone: (717) 337 - 6760
Degree(s): PhD New York University, 1998
MA New York University, 1993
BA Dartmouth College, 1985

Courses Taught: Antebellum American Literature
Critical Methods
Critical Methods: History of Literary Criticism
Special Topics in Literature
Speculation, American Style
Studies in LiteratureAmerican Realism & Naturalism
Studies in LiteratureThe Early American Novel
Survey of American Literature to 1865
Topics in American LiteratureAmerican Gothic
Topics in American LiteratureAmerican Gothic:Antebellum Lit
Topics in American LiteratureCivil War in Amer Imagination
Topics in American LiteratureTruth and the American Way



Elizabeth Duquette received her B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in American Literature from New York University. Her teaching interests include nineteenth-century American literature, transatlantic literary culture, intellectual history and critical theory. She has recently completed a book manuscript on loyalty in the postbellum United States--Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in the United States, 1861-1909--and begun a new project on aesthetics and agency. Her publications include: "The Republican Mammy? Imagining Civic Engagement in Dred," American Literature 80:1 (2008), 1-28; "Accounting for Value in 'The Business Man,'" Studies in American Fiction 35:1 (2007), 3-20; "'A New Claim for the Family Renown': Alice James and the Picturesque," ELH 72 (2005), 717-45; "Embodying Community, Disembodying Race: Josiah Royce on 'Race Questions and Prejudices,'" American Literary History 16:1 (2004), 29-57; "'Tongue of an Archangel': Poe, Baudelaire, Benjamin," Translation and Literature 12:1 (2003), 18-40; "Pour faire une hamlette: Freud, Lacan, Kierkegaard," Literature and Psychology 49:1/2 (2003), 1-38; "'Reflected Usefulness': Exemplifying Conduct in Roderick Hudson," The Henry James Review 23:2 (2002), 157-75; "Speculative Cetology: Figuring Philosophy in Moby-Dick," ESQ 47:1 (2001), 33-57.
 
 
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