David Musselwhite (3 December 1940 – 23 February 2010) was a British literary critic and academic.
This involved a set of conferences that according to literary critic, Terry Eagleton "...have a quasi-mythological status in the minds of some who weren’t even born at the time".
[5] His main research areas were the English novel, Latin American literature, and the Enlightenment, and he published numerous articles in these fields.
[6] Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Methuen, 1987.
Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.