Philip Weinstein

Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College.  He teaches seminars in Modern Comparative Literature, as well as a range of courses in American and British fiction.  His publications include Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination (Harvard Press, 1971), The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce(Princeton, 1984), Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (Cambridge, 1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (Columbia, 1996), and, most recently, Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (Cornell, 2005).

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