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Jane Tompkins

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Literary Criticism, Literary Studies

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Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism.[1] She has helped develop the idea of cultural work in literary studies.[2] She earned her PhD at Yale in 1966 and subsequently taught at Temple University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.[3]

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Average rating: 3.63 · 1,360 ratings · 182 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, Jane Tompkins (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 15,466 ratings — published 1912 — 329 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner, Jane Tompkins (Afterword) 3.53 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1850 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns 3.75 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 4.01 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life In School: What The Teacher Learned 3.66 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism 3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading through the Night 3.52 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice by Annette R. Federico (editor), Jane Tompkins (Foreword) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life by Nancy Owen Nelson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jane Tompkins 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Look, I know from the outside it doesn't look so bad... I know I had all the advantages. I know my parents loved me. But that makes it worse, don't you see?... The way it is, all the unhappiness seems to be my responsibility, my fault.”
― Jane Tompkins, A Life In School: What The Teacher Learned

tags: depression, unhappiness

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“If the cup is empty, it can be filled.”
― Jane Tompkins, A Life In School: What The Teacher Learned

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“In my professional life, by contrast, I became a rebel and a game-changer. In my scholarly work I took controversial positions that exposed me to attack and ridicule, something which I both feared and enjoyed.”
― Jane Tompkins, Reading through the Night

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