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Regius Chair Of Rhetoric And Belles Lettres
The Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh was established in 1762 (as the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres). It is arguably the first professorship of English Literature established anywhere in the world. Its first holder was Professor Hugh Blair. List of Regius Professors of Rhetoric and English Literature * Hugh Blair (1762 to 1784)Winifred Bryan Horner, ''Nineteenth-Century Scottish Rhetoric: The American Connection'' (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993), pp. 60–62. *William Greenfield (1784 to 1798) *Hugh Blair (reversion, 1798 to 1801) * Andrew Brown (1801 to 1834) * George Moir (1835 to 1840) * William Spalding (1840 to 1845) * William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1845 to 1865)G. G. Smith, rev. Sondra Miley Cooney"Masson, David Mather" ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2010). Retrieved 24 March 2021. * David Mather Masson (1865 to 1895) * Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 1582 and officially opened in 1583, it is one of Scotland's four ancient universities and the sixth-oldest university in continuous operation in the English-speaking world. The university played an important role in Edinburgh becoming a chief intellectual centre during the Scottish Enlightenment and contributed to the city being nicknamed the " Athens of the North." Edinburgh is ranked among the top universities in the United Kingdom and the world. Edinburgh is a member of several associations of research-intensive universities, including the Coimbra Group, League of European Research Universities, Russell Group, Una Europa, and Universitas 21. In the fiscal year ending 31 July 2021, it had a total income of £1.176 billion, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert John Clifford Grierson
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, FBA (16 January 1866 – 19 February 1960) was a Scottish literary scholar, editor, and literary critic. Life and work He was born in Lerwick, Shetland, on 16 January 1866. He was the son of Andrew John Grierson and his wife, Alice Geraldine (''née'' Clifford) Grierson. In 1896 he married Mary Letitia (née Ogston) Grierson, daughter of Sir Alexander Ogston, Professor of Surgery at Aberdeen. They had five daughters including Molly Dickins, author of ''A Wealth of Relations'', about family history, writer Flora Grierson who co-founded the Samson Press, and writer and pianist Janet Teissier du Cros. He was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen and Christ Church, Oxford. On graduating from the latter he was appointed Professor of English Literature at his Aberdeen alma mater, where he taught from 1894 to 1915, and subsequently became Knight Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (1915–1935). In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Edinburgh School Of Literatures, Languages And Cultures
The University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures is a school within the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 2002 as a result of administrative restructuring, when several departments of what was then the Faculty of Arts were brought together. The School currently covers seven major subject areas: * Asian Studies (Chinese, Japanese and Sanskrit) * Celtic and Scottish Studies ( gd, Ceiltis agus Eòlas na h-Alba) * English Literature * European Languages and Cultures (French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Russian and Scandinavian Studies) * Film studies * Islamic studies and Middle Eastern Studies * Theatre Studies Translation Studies Founded in 1762 when King George III appointed the Reverend Hugh Blair as the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, the English Literature department is the oldest centre for the study of Literature in the UK, and one of the oldest in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regius Professor
A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine, and founded by the Scottish King James IV at the University of Aberdeen in 1497. Regius chairs have since been instituted in various universities, in disciplines judged to be fundamental and for which there is a continuing and significant need. Each was established by an English, Scottish, or British monarch, and following proper advertisement and interview through the offices of the university and the national government, the current monarch still appoints the professor (except for those at the University of Dublin in Ireland, which left the United Kingdom in 1922). This royal imprimatur, and the relative rarity of these professorships, means a Regius chair is prestigious and highly sought-after. Regius Professors are traditionally address ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Walker (academic)
Greg Walker is Regius professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll .... His specialist field is the history of literature and drama in the late-medieval period and the sixteenth century. Before taking up the Regius Chair he was the Masson Professor of English at Edinburgh. Before that he was Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Culture and Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. Between 1986 and 1989 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Southampton and has also taught at the Universities of Queensland and Buckingham. He was the Head of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Marcus
Laura Marcus FBA (7 March 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a British literature scholar. She was Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford and published widely on 19th- and 20th-century literature and film, with particular interests in autobiography, modernism, Virginia Woolf, and psychoanalysis. Marcus won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize for her book ''The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period''. In 2011, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Prior to joining Oxford, Marcus was Professor of English at Sussex University and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 .... She was an editor of the journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Gazette
''The London Gazette'' is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. ''The Gazette'' is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage. It does not have a large circulation. Other official newspapers of the UK government are ''The Edinburgh Gazette'' and '' The Belfast Gazette'', which, apart from reproducing certain materials of nationwide interest published in ''The London Gazette'', also contain publications specific to Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. In turn, ''The London Gazette'' carries not only notices of UK-wide interest, but also those relating specifically to entities or people in England and Wales. However, certain notices that are only of specific interest to Scotland or Northern Ireland are also required to be published in ''The London Gazett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Anthony Frow
John Frow (born 13 November 1948 in Coonabarabran, Australia) is an Australian academic who works in the areas of literary theory, narrative theory, intellectual property law, and cultural studies. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Sydney. Career Frow’s area of research is humanities and social sciences. It ranges from technical work in literary theory and discourse analysis through to empirical and statistically-based sociology. His doctoral work and first book, "Marxism and Literary History" (1986), reworks Marxist theory for a non-determinist account of literary systems. His work draws on Althusser and Foucault, as well as on Russian Formalist theory, German reception aesthetics, a critical engagement with post-structuralist theory, and on a broad range of literary texts. It theorized the relation between discourse and power, the relational structure of literary texts and systems, and the dynamics of literary change. Frow’s later wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ian Edward Donaldson
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair David Shaw Fowler
Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA (1930 – 9 October 2022) was a Scottish literary critic, editor, and an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology. Life and career Alastair Fowler was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1930. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1952). He was subsequently awarded an M.A. (1955), D.Phil. (1957) and D.Litt. (1962) from Oxford. As a graduate student at Oxford, Fowler studied with C. S. Lewis, and later edited Lewis's ''Spenser's Images of Life''. Fowler was a junior research fellow at Queen's College, Oxford (1955–1959). He also taught at Swansea (1959–1961), and Brasenose College, Oxford (1962–1971). He was Regius Professor of literature at the University of Edinburgh (1972–1984) and also taught intermittently at universities in the United States, including Columbia (1964) and the University of Virginia (1969, 1979, 1985–1998). He delivered the 1980 Warton Lecture on English Poetry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Jenkins (Shakespeare Scholar)
Harold Jenkins, FBA (19 July 1909 – 4 January 2000) is described as "one of the foremost Shakespeare scholars of his century". His edition of ''Hamlet'' was published by Arden Shakespeare in 1982. It represents a peak in the editorial style of drawing on both quarto versions, particularly the 1604 quarto, and also the Folio of 1623, in order to create a single text. He wrote two monographs on Henry Chettle and Edward Benlowes, and he published editions of Elizabethan plays and numerous scholarly articles. His long collaboration with the Arden Shakespeare started in the 1950s, with the commission to edit ''Hamlet''. In 1958 he was named joint general editor of the series (along with Harold F. Brooks). In this capacity he worked with some of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars of his time. Early life Jenkins was raised in Shenley, Buckinghamshire. He was the eldest son of Henry Jenkins (1878–1932), a dairyman, and his wife, Mildred, née Carter. Jenkins was educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Everett Butt
John Everett Butt, FBA (12 April 1906 – 22 November 1965) was an English literary scholar, known for his work on Alexander Pope. He was Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1959 to 1965. Biography The son of a doctor, he attended Shrewsbury School and Merton College, Oxford, switching from medicine to English language and literature and graduating in 1928.Donald W. Nichol"Butt, John Everett" ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2018). Retrieved 24 March 2021. Butt was employed as an assistant lecturer at the University of Leeds in 1929 and then briefly as an assistant librarian at the University of Oxford in 1930, before being appointed in that year to a lectureship in English at Bedford College, London. He remained there until 1946, though his tenure was interrupted by temporary appointments at the Ministry of Home Security and the Home Office during the Second World War. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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