alliston@princeton.edu
Prof. Alliston works mainly at the intersections of the fields of eighteenth-century studies, gender studies, and the history and theory of the novel. An ongoing study explores the relationship between European gender conventions and the origins of the modern novel, arguing that the early novel, far from affirming Enlightenment individualism connects new philosophical skepticism about interiority and sense experience with archaic social anxieties around female fidelity.
Read Professor Alliston’s full biography on the Department of Comparative Literature website.
