Review of Marvell and Liberty, ed. Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis. Review of Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome , by Paul Hammond. I m interested in the development of early modern self-consciousness, and specifically in reflexivity that is, the unpredictable ways in which we conceive of ourselves as members of a changing civic polity or of a community subject to time. In terms of literary study, this means relocating the autonomous self in the wider mirror of society and interpreting our psyches extrospectively.
History gives a truer mimesis of human experience than theory is able to provide.
Graduate students from political science and history are welcome in these new seminars. My two basic, 3-level courses in Shakespeare and in the Bible have been restructured. For the latest syllabus of a course, click on its link, below. These divisions by genre are explained on the Shakespeare web page. This historical rubric covers three centuries of English literature from the Reformation to the French Revolution in two courses with a break roughly at 1650.