David Haley

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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).

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: English, Harvard University, 1964

Specialties

Drama from Aphra Behn to Sheridan
The Bible as literature
Spenser
Sidney
Shakespeare
Restoration
Politics and literature
Milton
Marvell
Machiavelli
Hegel and philosophy of history
England's civil wars
England
Dryden
History
Literature and politics from Machiavelli and Shakespeare to Hegel and Jane Austen

Publications

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Publications

For Students: Writing a Paper or a Paraphrase
Dryden and the Problem of Freedom: The Republican Aftermath, 1649-1680. New Haven: Yale University Press, Haley, David, 1997.
Review of Poetry of Opposition and Revolution, by Howard Erskine-Hill: Haley, David, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 98, 111-16, 1999.
Shakespeare's Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All's Well That Ends Well. University of Delaware Press, Haley, David, 1993.
Shakespeare's Bertram, Ahab and Naboth?s Vineyard: Haley, David, English Language Notes, 33, 8-22, 1995.
Review of "Marvell and Liberty": Chernaik and Dzelzainis, editors, St. Martin's Press, Haley, David, 2000.
A Certain Text: Close Readings in Shakespeare and Others. Edited with Linda Anderson and Janis Lull, University of Delaware Press, Haley, David, 2002.
Was Dryden a Cryptopapist in 1681?: Haley, David, Studies in 18th Century Culture, 32, 2003.
For Students: Shakespeare
"'The Cause of This Defect': The Dram of Eale." . Newark: University of Delaware Press, Haley, David, 2002.
“Dryden, John.“ : Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Haley, David, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism., 2005.
“Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist.“: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Haley, David, Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden., 2004.
"Forum." (reply to Edward Saslow) . Haley, David, 2003.
Review of Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome: Haley, David, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 100, 2001.
Review of Elliot Visconsi, Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England: Haley, David, The Scriblerian, 10, 108-110, 2010.
“The Literary Origins of Sir Lucius O’Trigger.”: ed. de Rochi and Ennis, Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, Haley, David, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 61-82, 2013.
“The Popish Plot”: New York: Methuen, Haley, David, The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789, 289–96, 2015.

Courses

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Courses

EngL 3132 - The Bible as Literature
EngL 8250 - Republicanism in Milton, Marvell, and Dryden
EngL 3122 - Shakespeare II: The Major themes
Milton and Regicide
Politics, History, and Literature
Shakespearean Community
Religion in Shakespeare
Women Historians Before Wollstonecraft
Milton and Rebellion
Restoration and 18th-Century British Comedy
Renaissance Poetry and Politics
Shakespeare: The Earlier Plays
Shakespeare: The Later Plays
Machiavelli and Republicanism