David Hensley
Group:
Faculty Members
Position:
Associate Professor
Stream:
Literature
Specialization by geographical area:
Great Britain
Europe
Specialization by time period:
Early Modern
Restoration
18th-Century
Romantic
Area(s):
Aesthetics
Book History
Fiction
History & Theory of the Novel
Philosophical Approaches
Poetry & Poetics
Areas of interest:
18th-century literature; philosophy and fiction; literary theory; counter-Enlightenment religious ideology; theory of the novel in Samuel Richardson's fiction.
Degree(s):
Ph.D. (Yale)
B.A., M.A. (Cambridge)
B.A. (Yale)
Selected publications:
Articles
"Clarissa, Coleridge, Kant, and Klopstock: Emotionalism as Pietistic Intertext in Anglo-German Romanticism," Studies in the Literary Imagination 28.1 (1995): 125-47.
"Thomas Edwards and the Dialectics of Clarissa's Death Scene," Eighteenth-Century Life 16, n.s., 3 (1992): 130-52.
Awards, honours, and fellowships:
- H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching
- SSHRC Research Grant
- SSHRC Research Time Stipend
Taught previously at:
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)