Prof. HAINES Simon

	Title	Professor of English
	Tel	2609 7013
	Office	Fung King Hey 338
	Profile	BA (Hons. I), Australian National University D.Phil, Oxford University
	E-mail	simon.haines@cuhk.edu.hk

Administrative Post

• Chairman, Division Head, Convenor of Teaching & Learning Development Committee

Research Interests

• Romantic and post-Romantic literature, especially poetry; seventeenth century poetry; literature and moral philosophy; models of the self in European poetry and philosophy.

Selected Publications

(1) Books

• A Reader in European Romanticism, co-edited with Stephen Prickett, Continuum Books/Argumentum Press, 1000pp., forthcoming autumn 2009

• Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau: Romantic Souls, Realist Lives, Palgrave Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 215pp., 2005 [Image]

• Shelley’s Poetry: The Divided Self, Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 274pp., 1997 [Image]

(2) Articles and Book Chapters

• “Iris Murdoch, The Ethical Turn and Literary Value”, in Iris Murdoch and Morality, eds., Anne Rowe and Avril Horner, Palgrave, forthcoming summer 2009

• “English Bards and German Sages”, in English Now: Selected Papers from the 2oth IAUPE Conference, ed. Marianne Thormahlen, Lund Studies in English, 2008, pp. 72-81.

• “Romanticism’s Imperial Self-Fashioning”, in La Questione Romantica: Imperialismo/Colonialismo, Numero 18-19, Liguore Editore, Napoli, 2008, pp. 145-153.

• “Time in Philosophy and Art”, keynote article in Art and Time, eds. Lloyd-Jones et al., Australian Scholarly Press, 2007, pp. 13-30

• “Machiavelli: Bad but Honourable”, in Renaissance Perspectives, ed. Lloyd-Jones et al., Australian Scholarly Press, 2006,pp. 43-53.

• “Deepening the Self: The Language of Ethics and the Language of Literature”, ch.1 in Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy and Theory, eds Adamson, Freadman and Parker, Cambridge, 1998, pp. 21-38

• “Good News from Ghent: The Suppression of the Self in Modern Literary Theory”, The Critical Review, no. 37, 1997, pp. 28-46.

Research Projects

• Romanticism and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination, contracted with Continuum Books and Baylor University Press for the series Making of the Christian Imagination. A book about the Romantic takeover of the moral space previously occupied by Christian conceptual patterns in the Western self.

• Wordsworth to Wittgenstein: the Modern Self in Poetry and Philosophy. A book about two contrasting models of the self in modern Western literature.

• a project on the opposition between conceptual and non-conceptual language in Milton and Shakespeare