Fleishman, Avrom

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FLEISHMAN, Avrom

FLEISHMAN, Avrom. American, b. 1933. Genres: Film, Literary criticism and history, Social commentary. Career: Instructor, Columbia University, NYC, 1958-59, and Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 1960-63; Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1963-66, and Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1966-67; Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1970-99 (Associate Professor, 1968-70). Publications: A Reading of Mansfield Park: An Essay in Critical Synthesis, 1967; Conrad's Politics: Community and Anarchy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad, 1967; The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf, 1971; Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading, 1975; Fiction and the Ways of Knowing: Essays on British Novels, 1978; Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing in Victorian and Modern England, 1983; Narrated Films: Storytelling Situations in Cinema History, 1992; The Condition of English: Literary Studies in a Changing Culture, 1998; New Class Culture: How an Emergent Class Is Transforming America's Culture, 2002. Address: 1123 Bellemore Rd, Baltimore, MD 21210, U.S.A.

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