David B. Luke
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. English, State University of New York--Buffalo, 1974
210K Lind Hall
(612)625-3467
lukex001@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
Shakespeare; romantic and victorian literature; the gothic novel; critical theory; old age in film and literature
Selected Publications
"Keats's Notes from Underground 'To J. H. Reynolds.'" Studies in English Literature 19 (1979).
"`How Is It That You Live, and What Is It You Do?': The Question of Old Age in English Romantic Poetry." Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology. Ed. Stuart Spicker, Kathleen Woodward and David Van Tassel. Atlantic Heights: Humanities, 1978.
"Keats's Letters: Fragments of an Aesthetic of Fragments." Genre 11 (1978).
"Romanticism and the Morality of Embarrassment." Kritikon Litterarum 6 (1977).
"'The Eve of Saint Mark': Keats's 'ghostly Queen of Spades' and the Textual Superstition." Studies in Romanticism 9 (l970).
Other reviews in Wordsworth Circle.
Undergraduate Courses
Old Age in Modern Literature and Film
Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Techniques of Literary Study
Shakespeare
Introduction to Modern Poetry
Introduction to Modern Fiction