Jennifer L. Fleissner, 2011–2012 | National Humanities Center

Jennifer L. Fleissner (NHC Fellow, 2011–12)

Project Title

Maladies of the Will: Literature as a Symptomatology of Modernity

Indiana University Bloomington

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2011–12

Jennifer L. Fleissner wrote two chapters of her book Maladies of the Will: Literature as a Symptomatology of Modernity and did research for two others. She also began writing two articles, "Melville's Stutter: Billy Budd and the Symptomatology of Modernity" and "The Pathology of Romanticism: Ian McEwan's Enduring Love."