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David McNeil, Associate Professor


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"Ultimately the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than the life of an oyster." Hume, from Essays ... (1783 ed.)
Department of English, 6135 University (New FASS Building), Office 3193
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9 CANADA
dmcneil@dal.ca
(902) 494-3508

Status: "Listed as day-to-day" (aren't we all?)
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Teaching and Research Interests

- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Teaching in an WWW environment Dalhousie OWL
- Satire
- Fictionalization of America (the eighteenth-century English novel)
- War and the Arts
- South Sea Bubble (The Bubble Project)
- Newspapers: 1660-1800 (e.g., London Gazette)
- theory of the Spectacle (Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (1967); see also the film, and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988)
- sports literature, Hockey in Print (HIP): Bibliography of Writing on Hockey, over 800 items! Searchable (keyword, author, title, year).
- biography of Gerry McNeil, Goaltender Under Pressure
- Selected Publications
- Recent Conference Papers
  • Office Hours: W 2:00-3:00, R 4:00-5:00. Call 494-3384 to book an appointment or contact me by e-mail dmcneil@dal.ca.

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