Jay Fliegelman, Professor Primary Office: 460-418
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Office Phone: 650-723-1799 At Stanford Since: 1977 Email: jayf@stanford.edu Degrees: B.A. magna cum laude, Wesleyan University, 1971 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977 Titles: William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature Chair, English Department, 1994-1997 | 
Jay Fliegelman's primary interest is in American literary and cultural history from 1620-1860. His first book, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800, deals with the ways in which the rise of the novel, revolutionary politics, theology, and the changing character of the family all participated in the period's radical redefinition of the nature of authority. Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance, examines American independence in the context of a new social dramaturgy of public speaking, self display and the "soft compulsion" of a politics of persuasion. His current project, Belongings: Dramas of American Book Ownership, 1660-1860, concerns objects of desire, the psychology of possession and the emotional relationship to books. He has also edited the Penguin edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, is currently editing Benito Cereno in Cultural Context for Bedford Books, and has a strong interest in the history of the book as artifact. He is the recipient of both the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Associated Students of Stanford University Award or Outstanding Teaching.
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