Pericles Lewis

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  • Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN   9780521828093.
  • Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN   9780521661119
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    Norton Anthology of World Literature New York: Norton, 2012. Ed. Martin Puchner et al.

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    Pericles Lewis
    Dean of Yale College
    Assumed office
    July 1, 2022