# David Musselwhite

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'''David Musselwhite''' (3 December 1940 – 23 February 2010) was a British literary critic and academic.

== Life ==
He was born in Bristol and studied first at [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University), then later at the [University of Essex](/source/University_of_Essex), where he subsequently became a Senior Lecturer. He also taught in [Argentina](/source/Argentina), at the [University of the West Indies](/source/University_of_the_West_Indies) in [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica), and at [Curtin University](/source/Curtin_University) in [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia).<ref>{{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}}</ref>

He was the author of two books &ndash; ''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](/source/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''<ref>{{citation
|title=Social Transformation in Hardy's Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms
|publisher=The Modern Language Review 
|date=January 2006
|author=Tim Armstrong 
|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7026/is_1_101/ai_n28345122/
|accessdate=2010-10-15}}</ref>) and by Andrew Radford as "...not only accessible to Hardy enthusiasts, but necessary to academic specialists".<ref>''Cambridge Quarterly'', 2004, 33: 4, 386-391</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>

He initiated the [Essex Sociology of Literature Project](/source/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](/source/Terry_Eagleton) "...have a quasi-mythological status in the minds of some who weren’t even born at the time".<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

His main research areas were the English novel, [Latin American literature](/source/Latin_American_literature), and the Enlightenment, and he published numerous articles in these fields.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

== Publications ==

=== Books ===
''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.

=== Articles ===

* "El Perseguidor: un modelo para desarmar", ''[Nuevos Aires](/source/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](/source/Essays_in_Poetics)'', Vol. I, No. 1 Keele 1976, 48-60
* "Wuthering Heights: the unacceptable text", ''[Red Letters](/source/Red_Letters_(journal))'', 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](/source/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](/source/Romance_Studies)'' 18, June 2000, 57-68
* "Phantasm and Nation: Sarmiento's Facundo", ''[New Comparison](/source/New_Comparison)'' 29 (Spring 2000), 5-26
* "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: 'A Becoming Woman' or Deleuze and Guattari go to Wessex", ''[Textual Practice](/source/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<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

== Obituary==
* 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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