Dorothy J. Hale, Professor
Office: 335 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-2768
Email: dhale@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
American Literature to 1900. 20th-Century American Literature. Critical Theory. Narrative & the Novel.Current Research
Professor Hale also works on narrative theory, Faulkner and the modern novel of consciousness, and the American gothic.Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
BOOKS
The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000. Editor and author. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. 802.
Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 251.
In Progress
Novelistic Aesthetics and the New Ethics
Invisible Visibility: Ideology and Authorial Self-Representation in Anglo-American Novel Theory and Practice (1885-1940)
TRANSLATIONS
Danish translation of Introduction to Social Formalism, Kulture & Klasse, 35 (2007): 17-33.
ARTICLES
"Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-first Century," "the state-of-the-art" essay forthcoming in PMLA, March 2009.
"An Aesthetics of Alterity: The Art of English Fiction in the 20th Century," forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to the 20th Century English Novel, ed. Robert Caserio.
"Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel," Narrative, 15 (2007): 187-206.
Henry James and the Invention of Novel Theory. The Cambridge Companion to Henry James. Ed. Jonathan Freedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 79-101.
Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory. ELH 61 (1994): 445-471.
"As I Lay Dying's Heterogeneous Discourse." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 23 (1989): 5-23.
"Profits of Altruism: Caleb Williams and Arthur Mervyn." Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988): 47-69.
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