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Jenny M. Davidson
Asst Prof
Columbia University
English-Compar Lit |
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Biography
B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe (1993); Ph.D., Yale (1999).
Jenny Davidson writes about eighteenth-century literature and culture; other interests include British cultural and intellectual history and the contemporary novel in English. She is the author of a novel, Heredity (U.S., Soft Skull, 2003; U.K., Serpent's Tail, 2005). Her book Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen was published by Cambridge UP in 2004, and she is now at work on a new book called Breeding: Nature and Nurture Before Biology. In 2005-2006, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA. | |
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