About the Faculty

Pericles Lewis
pericles.lewis@yale.edu

Pericles Lewis has written on the relationship of the history of the novel to social, political and intellectual movements, including nationalism, liberalism, and secularization. His fields of interest include the modern novel (James, Conrad, Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, d'Annunzio, Svevo, Beckett), the 19th-century novel, the epic tradition, moral and political philosophy, and literary theory from the New Criticism to the present. Lewis is the author of Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (2000), which won the Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarly work by a junior faculty member in the humanities at Yale. He has published articles on Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Giambattista Vico. His reviews of work on modern fiction and literary theory have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Philology, Criticism, and The International Review of Modernism. He has recently finished two books, Religious Experience in the Modern Novel: God's Afterlife and The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (2007).

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