Dr. Michael J. Davey
Assistant Professor - Early and 19th Century American Literature
Teaching and Research InterestsContact Info:
- Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Literary and Material History of the Nineteenth Century
- Narrative Theory
- The Novel
- Critical Theory
- Antebellum Print Culture
Department of English 201 West Hall Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698-0025 Telephone: (229) 333-7338 or -5946 Fax: (229) 259-5529 mjdavey@valdosta.edu
I think I could turn, and live with the animals, they are so
placid and self-contain’d,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to god,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, not to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Whitman, Song of Myself
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt