Seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature

Paul Downes

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Deconstructive literary theory
• Herman Melville
• Marxist and post-Marxist theories of sovereignty and democracy
• Political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
• Politically-inflected theological texts;
• Seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature

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