David Haley
Professor
Ph.D. English, Harvard University, 1964
310C Lind Hall
(612) 625–6615
dbhaley@umn.edu
Bond St. Conference, 2007
David Haley is interested in the development of early modern self-consciousness and particularly in how we think about our participation in a changing civic polity—a community subject to time. For literary study, this means relocating the image of the autonomous self in a wider, social mirror by correlating introspection (psychology) with extrospection (politics). His guiding premise is that history gives us a fuller and more complex reading of human relations than theory can provide. Just like epic or dramatic mimesis, artfully recorded history reflects our experience: “all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of thoughts from within” (Milton).
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
History, literature and politics from Machiavelli and Shakespeare to Hegel and Jane Austen
Selected Publications
Dryden and the Problem of Freedom: The Republican Aftermath, 1649 -1680. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Shakespeare's Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All's Well That Ends Well. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993.
"'The Cause of This Defect': The Dram of Eale." "A Certain Text”: Close Readings and Textual Studies in Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Tom Clayton. Ed. Linda Anderson and Janis Lull. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.
“Dryden, John.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
“Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist.” Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Ed. Jayne Lewis and Maximillian Novak. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
"Was Dryden a 'Cryptopapist' in 1681?" Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 32 (2003).
"Forum." (reply to Edward Saslow) Restoration 27 (Spring, 2003).
Review of Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome, by Paul Hammond. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100 (2001).
Review of Marvell and Liberty, Ed. Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis. Albion 32 (2000).
Graduate Courses
Milton and Regicide
Politics, History, and Literature
Shakespearean Community
Milton, Marvell, and Dryden
Religion in Shakespeare
Women Historians Before Wollstonecraft
Undergraduate Courses
The Bible as Literature
Shakespeare II: The Major Themes
Milton and Rebellion
Restoration and 18th-Century British Comedy
Renaissance Poetry and Politics
Shakespeare: The Earlier Plays
Shakespeare: The Later Plays
Machiavelli and Republicanism
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