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David Hensley

David Hensley
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext 00794
Email address: 
david.hensley [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

McGill University Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor
Stream: 
Literature
Degree(s): 

B.A. (Yale); B.A., M.A. (Cambridge); Ph.D. (Yale), Associate Professor

Area(s): 
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Theory
Teaching areas: 

18th-century literature, philosophy and fiction, literary theory.

Taught previously at: 

Rutgers University.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • SSHRC Research Grant
  • SSHRC Research Time Stipend
Selected publications: 

"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.

Current research: 

Counter-Enlightenment religious ideology and theory of the novel in Samuel Richardson's fiction; editing "Clarissa'''s Reception in the Nineteenth Century (Volume 13 of the Clarissa Project).

Building ID: 
103
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