David Musselwhite

He was born in Bristol and studied first at Cambridge University, then later at the University of Essex, where he subsequently became a Senior Lecturer. He also taught in Argentina, at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, and at Curtin University in Western Australia.{{cite web|last=Reisz |first=Matthew |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410677&c=2 |title=David Musselwhite, 1940-2010 |publisher=Times Higher Education |date= 11 March 2010|accessdate=2010-10-15}}

He was the author of two books – Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Methuen, 1987), and Social Transformations in Hardy’s Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Both books were widely reviewed, with the latter described by Tim Armstrong as “...a theoretically provocative and fascinating study.” (The Modern Language Review{{citation

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|accessdate=2010-10-15}}) and by Andrew Radford as "...not only accessible to Hardy enthusiasts, but necessary to academic specialists".Cambridge Quarterly, 2004, 33: 4, 386-391{{cite web|url=http://www.saltpublishing.com/saltmagazine/issues/03/text/Musselwhite_David_Article.htm |title=David Musselwhite |publisher=Saltpublishing.com |date=2009-02-22 |accessdate=2010-10-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105709/http://www.saltpublishing.com/saltmagazine/issues/03/text/Musselwhite_David_Article.htm |archivedate=2011-07-20 }}

He initiated the Essex Sociology of Literature Project at the University of Essex in 1976. This involved a set of conferences that according to literary critic, Terry Eagleton "...have a quasi-mythological status in the minds of some who weren’t even born at the time".{{cite web |url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/lifts/soclit/introduction.htm |title=Introduction |publisher=Essex.ac.uk |date=2002-08-05 |accessdate=2010-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110325073959/http://www.essex.ac.uk/lifts/soclit/introduction.htm |archive-date=2011-03-25 |url-status=dead }}

His main research areas were the English novel, Latin American literature, and the Enlightenment, and he published numerous articles in these fields.{{cite web|url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/lifts/archive/people(old)/fellows/davidMusselwhite.aspx |title=Department of Literature, Film, & Theatre Studies |publisher=Essex.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-10-15 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Methuen, 1987.

Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

• "El Perseguidor: un modelo para desarmar", Nuevos Aires, No. 8, Buenos Aires, 1972, 23-36
• "El astillero en marcha", Nuevos Aires, No. 11, Buenos Aires, 1973, 3-15
• "Cecilia Valdes", New World, Jamaica, 1973
• "Los Premios entre lo todo y la nada", Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Número 314-315, (Agosto-Septiembre), Madrid, 1976, 520-566
• "La vida y la muerte de Berthe Trepat", Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Número 320-21 (Febrero y Marzo), Madrid 1977, 341-359
• "Women in Love: a flawed novel", Essays in Poetics, Vol. I, No. 1 Keele 1976, 48-60
• "Wuthering Heights: the unacceptable text", Red Letters, No. 2, 1976, 3-5
• "Towards a political aesthetics", Literature, Society and the Sociology of Literature, Proceedings of the Essex Conference, ed. F. Barker et al., Essex, 1976, 8-17
• "The novel as narcotic", Proceedings of the Essex Conference, ed. F. Barker et al. Essex, 1978, 207-224
• "The Trial of Warren Hastings", Proceedings of the Essex Conference, ed. F. Barker et al., Essex, 1982, 226-251
• "Notes on a journey to Vanity Fair", Literature and History, 1982
• "Reflections on Burke's Reflections 1790/1990", in The Enlightenment and its Shadows, ed. Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova, Methuen, 1990, 142-162
• "Hardy's Mega-Machines", in Thomas Hardy: Revista Portuguesa de Estudios Anglo-Americanos, Oporto, 1992, 69-92
• "Death and the Phantasm: A Reading of Cortázar's 'Babas del diablo!", Romance Studies 18, June 2000, 57-68
• "Phantasm and Nation: Sarmiento's Facundo", New Comparison 29 (Spring 2000), 5-26
• "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: 'A Becoming Woman' or Deleuze and Guattari go to Wessex", Textual Practice, 14.3, 2000, 499-518
• "The Colombia of Maria: un paìs de cafres", Romance Studies Vol. 24 (1), March 2006, 41-54
• "Deleuze Goes to Xanadu", Deleuze Studies, vol. 1 no. 2, Dec 2007, 100-125
• "Heart of Darkness: A Minority Report", Salt, issue 3, 2010{{cite web|url=http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~muss/publications.htm |title=Publications |publisher=Privatewww.essex.ac.uk |accessdate=2010-10-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524002225/http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~muss/publications.htm |archivedate=2009-05-24 }}

• Del Valle Alcalá, Roberto (2010) "David E. Musselwhite, 1940-2010", 'The European English Messenger', 19.2 View entire article in pdf: http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/57457689/Obituaries

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