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David Marshall
Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-4327
Fax: (805) 893-2441
Email: dmarshall@ltsc.ucsb.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]
Office: CH 2127
Availability: In residence F, W, S
Office Hours: by appointment
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"Insofar as it is accompanied by a hint of discomfort, controversy, or excess, however, the picturesque is less a problem in aesthetics than a problem about aesthetics. As such, it represents more than a trend in gardening or a footnote to the history of the sublime; the invention of the picturesque represents a complex and at times paradoxical moment in the evolution of eighteenth-century attitudes about art, nature, and aesthetic experience."
--from "The Problem of the Picturesque," Eighteenth-Century Studies 35(3) (2002)
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| David Marshall is a Professor in the English Department and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was a professor at Yale University for 18 years, where he was Chair of the English Department, Director of The Literature Major, Acting Chair of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, among other appointments. Marshall is Chair of the University of California President’s Advisory Committee on Research in the Humanities, and a member of the AAU/ACLS Humanities Steering Committee. His research focuses on 18th-century fiction, aesthetics, and moral philosophy. He is the author of essays on Homer, Shakespeare, Austen,
Lennox, Mackenzie, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Hume, and Rilke, among other
authors and three books: The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe,
Adam Smith and George Eliot; The Surprising Effects of Sympathy:
Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley; and The Frame of Art:
Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815. The Frame of Art was
awarded the 2005-2006 Louis Gottschalk Prize by the American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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Areas of Interest |
- Eighteenth-century fiction and aesthetics
- Autobiography
- Shakespeare
- Lyric poetry
- Narrative
- Philosophy and literature
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Books and Recent Articles |
- The
Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
- The Figure of Theater:
Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith, and George Eliot (Columbia University Press,
1986)
- The Surprising Effects of
Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (University of Chicago
Press, 1988)
- “Autobiographical
Acts in Robinson Crusoe,” ELH 71 (2004)
- "The Problem of the Picturesque," Eighteenth-Century
Studies 35(3) (Spring 2002)
- "Arguing by Analogy:
Hume's Standard of Taste," Eighteenth-Century Studies 28(3) (Spring
1995)
- "Writing Masters and
'Masculine Exercises' in The Female Quixote," Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 5(2) (1993)
- "Exchanging Visions:
Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream," ELH 49(3) (Fall 1982)
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Current Projects |
- Work in progress on autobiographical fiction
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Recent Course Offerings |
- New Identities: Incorporation, Inscription, and Life Stories
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