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David F. Goslee

Selected Publications

  • Romanticism and the Anglican Newman (Ohio University Press, 1996)
  • Tennyson's Characters: "Strange Faces, Other Minds" (University of Iowa Press, 1989).

Representative articles

  • “Ethical Discord and Resolution in George Eliot’s Essays,” Prose Studies, 25 (2002 [2004]): 58-81
  • “Evolution, Ethics, and Equivocation: T.H. Huxley’s Conflicted Legacy,” Zygon, 39 (2004): 137-60
  • “New(-)man as Old Man in The Dream of Gerontius,” Renascence, 52 (2000): 275-9
  • "Religion as Contextualized Critique in the Letters of Harriett and Jemima Newman," Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, ed. Julie Melnyk (Garland Publishing, 1998), 95-104
  • Review of Janice Carlisle's John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character, South Atlantic Review, 57 (1992), 127-29
  • "Newman, Gibbon, and New-Testament Christianity," Critical Essays on John Henry Newman, ed. Ed Block Jr. (University of Victoria Press, 1992), 75-87
  • "A Mystical Subtext to Newman's Apologia," a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 6 (1991), 198-210
  • "Paying Browning's Piper," Studies in Browning, 16 (1988), 42-51
  • "Rhetoric as Confession in Newman's Parochial Sermons," Modern Language Quarterly, 48 (1987), 339-63
  • "'Fairer than aught in the world beside': The Speaker's Invocation of Maud," Victorian Poetry, 23 (1985), 391-402
  • review of Tennyson and Madn"Three Stages of Tennyson's 'Tiresias,'" JEGP, 70 (1976), 154-67
  • ess and "The Idylls of the King" and its Medieval Sources, Victorian Studies, 28 (1985), 358-60
  • "Mr. Sludge the MediumMr. Browning the Possessed," Studies in Browning, 3 (1975), 40-58
  • "The Stages in Tennyson's Composition of 'Balin and Balan,'" The Huntington Library Quarterly, 38 (1975), 247-68
  • "Character and Structure in Tennyson's The Princess, " Studies in English Literature, 14 (1974), 563-73
  • "Temporal and Spatial Vision in Early Tennyson," Victorian Poetry, II (1973), 323-29.


David F. Goslee

Contact Information

David F. Goslee
Professor and Associate Head
Department of English
301 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6930
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: dgoslee@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Oberlin
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Research

The Victorian Period